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Pelt "Jackson, Sarah"

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom Bloodaxe Books Ltd 31/05/2012Description: 64 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781852249311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.92
Contents:
Poetry by individual poets
Awards:
  • "She was awarded Arts Council funding in 2009 and has been shortlisted for the Arvon International Poetry Competition (2010) and the Edwin Morgan Prize (2011). Her pamphlet ""Milk"" (Pighog, 2008) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award"
Summary: "Sarah Jackson explores the edges of writing in this uncanny book of touch. Tender, haunting, and yet beautifully poised, the poems in Pelt get right under your skin. Composed in four parts, the collection takes you on an unsettling journey between infancy and adulthood. Veering from birds to blindness, from hides to hiding, ""Pelt"" uncovers the unfamiliar in the everyday. ""Pelt"" is written in the dark. It asks to be read through your fingertips. Striking and elegant, subtle and yet full of desire, this is a brilliant debut."
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sarah Jackson explores the edges of writing in this uncanny book of touch. Tender, haunting, and yet beautifully poised, the poems in Pelt get right under your skin. Composed in four parts, the collection takes you on an unsettling journey between infancy and adulthood. Veering from birds to blindness, from hides to hiding, "Pelt" uncovers the unfamiliar in the everyday. "Pelt" is written in the dark. It asks to be read through your fingertips. Striking and elegant, subtle and yet full of desire, this is a brilliant debut.

Poetry by individual poets

"Sarah Jackson explores the edges of writing in this uncanny book of touch. Tender, haunting, and yet beautifully poised, the poems in Pelt get right under your skin. Composed in four parts, the collection takes you on an unsettling journey between infancy and adulthood. Veering from birds to blindness, from hides to hiding, ""Pelt"" uncovers the unfamiliar in the everyday. ""Pelt"" is written in the dark. It asks to be read through your fingertips. Striking and elegant, subtle and yet full of desire, this is a brilliant debut."

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"She was awarded Arts Council funding in 2009 and has been shortlisted for the Arvon International Poetry Competition (2010) and the Edwin Morgan Prize (2011). Her pamphlet ""Milk"" (Pighog, 2008) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award"

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