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The Face in the Well

  • ISBN-13: 9781800174580
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Rebecca Watts
  • Price: AUD $29.99
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  • Local release date: 30/04/2025
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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This third collection from award-winning poet Rebecca Watts is a vibrant, resonant exploration of childhood, desire, conflict and the animal nature of the self.

Rebecca Wattss debut poetry collection The Met Office Advises Caution (2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Prize and named as one of the Guardian and Financial Timess Best Books of 2016. Her second collection Red Gloves was published in 2020 and won a Gladstones Library Writers-in-Residence Award. Rebecca has completed Fellowships with the Hawthornden Foundation and the Royal Literary Fund, and received awards for works in progress from the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, the Society of Authors and Arts Council England. In 2019 she edited Elizabeth Jennings: New Selected Poems for Carcanet. She currently lives in Cambridge, UK, where she works part-time in a library and as a freelance editor and tutor.

This third collection from award-winning poet Rebecca Watts is a vibrant, resonant exploration
of childhood, desire, conflict and the animal nature of the self
• With complex and compelling music, and the poet’s disarming wit, these poems plumb the
depths of our relationships with the world and with ourselves
• A 21st-century feminist deconstruction of the male poetic canon, where poems that offer a
challenge to Yeats, Hughes, Heaney and O’Hara are interwoven with homages to Emily Brontë,
Plath and other female role models
• Animals, as totems and spirit guides, swim, run and fly across the pages; Adults curate their
own funerals, befriend spiders, try to love each other, and go to war

Such deliberate and careful contrariness is Watts all over, and it is, I think, unique in contemporary poetry - Chris Edgoose, Woodbee Poet

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