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Her Birth "Goss, Rebecca"

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom Carcanet Press Ltd 01/07/2013Description: 80 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781847772381
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.914 REB
Contents:
Poetry by individual poets
Awards:
  • Shortlisted for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2013.
Summary: "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'."
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A poem sequence that is spare, tender, and haunting, this book navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss. Poet Rebecca Goss's newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with severe Ebstein's Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition, and lived for only 16 months. This collection of moving, deeply thoughtful poems brings Goss's professional and personal experiences to bear, 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.

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Echo
  • Fetal Heart (p. 13)
  • Room in a Hospital (p. 14)
  • Skin-to-Skin (p. 15)
  • Toast (p. 16)
  • Clinic (p. 17)
  • Echo (p. 18)
  • Palliative (p. 19)
  • A Dream of Heart Babies (p. 20)
  • I Sweat When I (p. 21)
  • Swings (p. 22)
  • Ward at Night (p. 23)
  • Severe Ebstein's Anomaly (p. 24)
  • A Child Dies in Liverpool (p. 25)
  • Post (p. 26)
  • St Mary's (p. 27)
  • Her Birth (p. 28)
  • Mining
  • The Postmistress (p. 31)
  • Honey (p. 32)
  • Stretch Marks (p. 33)
  • The Highchair (p. 34)
  • Print (p. 35)
  • Mining (p. 36)
  • You're Lucky You Can Dream About Her (p. 37)
  • October (p. 38)
  • Muscovado Sugar (p. 39)
  • My Neighbour's Himalayan Birch (p. 40)
  • The 21st of March (p. 41)
  • Mothers of the Dead (p. 42)
  • Found (p. 43)
  • Helpline (p. 44)
  • The Lights (p. 45)
  • Sunday Papers (p. 46)
  • Grief Goes Jogging (p. 47)
  • Peeing at the Odeon (p. 48)
  • Repair (p. 49)
  • Another (p. 50)
  • Welcome
  • Why We Had Another Baby (p. 53)
  • Test (p. 54)
  • Hyperemesis Gravidarum (p. 55)
  • As Owls Do (p. 56)
  • Clothes (p. 57)
  • Welcome (p. 58)
  • Shadows (p. 59)
  • My Animal (p. 60)
  • Lost (p. 61)
  • Bench (p. 62)
  • Telling the Tale (p. 63)
  • In Memory of John Ernest Goss 1920-2011 (p. 64)
  • Snail (p. 65)
  • Moon (p. 66)
  • Taking You There (p. 67)
  • Last Poem (p. 68)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 70)

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