Her Birth
Rebecca Goss
Her Birth "Goss, Rebecca" - United Kingdom Carcanet Press Ltd 01/07/2013 - 80 Paperback
Poetry by individual poets
"SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In 2007 Rebecca Goss's newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein's Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella's birth, her short life and her death, and ending with the joys and complexities that come with the birth of another child. Goss navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss in poems that are spare, tender and haunting: 'Going home, back down / the river road, will be a foreign route without her'."
General (US: Trade)
Shortlisted for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2013.
9781847772381
Poetry by individual poets
Mother and child
821.914 REB
Her Birth "Goss, Rebecca" - United Kingdom Carcanet Press Ltd 01/07/2013 - 80 Paperback
Poetry by individual poets
"SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In 2007 Rebecca Goss's newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein's Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella's birth, her short life and her death, and ending with the joys and complexities that come with the birth of another child. Goss navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss in poems that are spare, tender and haunting: 'Going home, back down / the river road, will be a foreign route without her'."
General (US: Trade)
Shortlisted for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2013.
9781847772381
Poetry by individual poets
Mother and child
821.914 REB