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In Girl, Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. Girl picks up where Goss’s acclaimed second collection, Her Birth—a work of ‘immense grace’ (Poetry London)—left off, and opens onto new territory. It is an authentic study of girlhood, and it deals candidly with the physical and mental quakes that follow illness and trauma. From a woman struck by lightning to a baby who understands shadows, Goss navigates the real and the imagined with equal flair. At the heart of the collection is a distinctive, sensual series of poems responding to the work of the artist Alison Watt: the result is a fearless exploration of the female body and female desire.
Rebecca Goss lives in Suffolk. She studied English at Liverpool John Moores University and has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University. Her second collection Her Birth (Carcanet/Northern House 2013) was shortlisted for The 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, The Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 and The Portico Prize for Literature 2015. It won the Poetry category in The 2014 East Anglian Book Awards. In 2014 she was selected for The Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets. She works as a poet, tutor, editor and mentor. She is the 2018/19 Fellow in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University.
* Much-anticipated follow up collection to acclaimed & prize-winning Her Birth. * Suffolk-based poet is a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet. * Traces the story of the poet’s recovery since losing her baby daughter. * Poems about female identity and female experience, and family relationships and dynamics. * Pieces inspired by pop culture and the artworld (specifically artist Alison Watt), resulting in a fearless exploration of the female body and female desire.
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