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On the Way to Jerusalem Farm

  • ISBN-13: 9781800171633
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Carola Luther
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 10 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 20/01/2022
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 200g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Carola Luthers new book, On the Way to Jerusalem Farm, explores the complexities of living in a damaged world. Carola Luthers new book On the Way to Jerusalem Farm explores the complexities of living in a damaged world. How, it asks, does such a world live in us, and we in it? At the centre of the collection are three sequences, Letters to Rasool, Birthday at Emily Court and The Escape. On the Way to Jerusalem Farm moves through the world, seeking and finding not answers, but sometimes, a means of continuing. The speaker in Letters to Rasool travels onward through scarred and depleted landscapes, and searches for a lost beloved. The ageing residents of Emily Court celebrate a birthday and dance. Spring of a kind still comes. And in The Escape there are colours to be found in the distant sea: A whole translucent geology, / cross-sections of light and water. Poetry for Luther is a way of finding a way, of making connections and sharing our complex lives in an interdependent present. The roles of lover and beloved become - almost - interchangeable in these richly visualised poems.

Carola Luthers first two collections, Walking the Animals (2004) and Arguing with Malarchy (2011) were published by Carcanet Press. Walking the Animals was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection. Herd, a pamphlet of poems, was published by The Wordsworth Trust where Carola was Poet in Residence in 2012. She has worked in NGOs, teaching, and mental health, and written text and lyrics for theatre. She moved to the UK from South Africa in 1981, and now lives in Yorkshire.

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