Black Country - Liz Berry

Descriere Black Country - Liz Berry

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014 \n \n *PBS Recommendation 2014* \n \n `When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...' \n \n In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems move from the magic of childhood - bostin fittle at Nanny's, summers before school - into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings, and the promise of new life. \n \n In Berry's hands, the ordinary is transformed: her characters shift shapes, her eye is unusual, her ear attuned to the sounds of the Black Country, with `vowels ferrous as nails, consonants / you could lick the coal from.' Ablaze with energy and full of the rich dialect of the West Midlands, this is an incandescent debut from a poet of dazzling talent and verve. \n

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ACADEM

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ENSTK

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9780701188573

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1

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