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  • ISBN-13: 9781784102722
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Rebecca Watts
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Local release date: 20/11/2016
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In this assured debut, Rebecca Watts positions herself where Wordsworth, Frost and Hughes have stood before her, and with fresh perspective, a wholly original tone, and an openness to the possibilities of form reinvigorates and remaps the landscapes of English nature poetry for a twenty-first-century audience. From ecology, social history and wide-open spaces to the domestic and intimate, these poems approach their often-unusual subjects with the clarity and matter-of-factness of Simon Armitage and a wit that recalls U. A. Fanthorpe, Dorothy Parker and Stevie Smith, spinning memorable scenes and vivid images from the material of plain language. Animals, as familiars and omens, abound. Weather states anticipate and direct human dramas. Environments as various as Antarctica and an old tinder box are enlivened under the analytical and tender watch of a poet influenced as much by science and realism as by Romanticism. As landscaper, orienteer and companion-guide, Watts finds new ways of negotiating the complex territories of our physical and emotional worlds, and invites us as readers to accompany her on the journey.
Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk in 1983 and now lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance editor. In 2014 she was selected as one of the Poetry Trust's Aldeburgh Eight. Her first collection is due out from Carcanet in 2016.
* Selected in 2014 as one of the Poetry Trust's Aldeburgh Eight; commissioned to write a poem for Scott Polar Museum, Cambridge
'What a joy to find a writer so capable of creating narrative within the poetic, humour within philosophy, wildness and drama within the quotidian. Watts has a rare, perceptive eye, searching intelligence and gorgeous levity. This is a striding and far from standard debut.' Sarah Hall; 'Rebecca Watts' poems adopt strange and illuminating vantage points - the bird's-eye view of a hawk, or a Victorian lady surveying a street from a penny-farthing - to do poetry's work of telling the truth, but telling it slant. Watts is particularly attuned to those points where human and non-human creatures meet and interact, and writes with intelligence and incision.' Emma Jones; 'With Watts we get this sense of the creative mind being strung out and pushed to its limits.' The Poetry School
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