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Electric Shadow
Heidi Williamson
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Description for Electric Shadow
Paperback. Heidi Williamson's first collection is highly unusual in being predominantly a book of poetry about science and our relationship with the world about us. It is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 110. 64 pages. Heidi Williamson's first collection is highly unusual in being predominantly a book of poetry about science and our relationship with the world about us. It is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 6. Weight: 110.
Heidi Williamson's first collection is peopled with vibrant and disturbing shadows. The Northern Lights reach down beneath the London skyline, James Dean learns the craft of distance, Darwin staggers across a heaving ship, Coleridge slumbers on to another dream, and The Travelling Salesman turns a calculator on us. Fuelled by a residency at the London Science Museum's Dana Centre, Williamson's fascination with science leads her to explore less usual territories for poetry, including mathematics, chemistry, and computer programming, as well as space travel, electricity, and evolution. As she investigates the limits of personal and factual knowledge with 'eyes wide open', ... Read more
Heidi Williamson's first collection is peopled with vibrant and disturbing shadows. The Northern Lights reach down beneath the London skyline, James Dean learns the craft of distance, Darwin staggers across a heaving ship, Coleridge slumbers on to another dream, and The Travelling Salesman turns a calculator on us. Fuelled by a residency at the London Science Museum's Dana Centre, Williamson's fascination with science leads her to explore less usual territories for poetry, including mathematics, chemistry, and computer programming, as well as space travel, electricity, and evolution. As she investigates the limits of personal and factual knowledge with 'eyes wide open', ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
109g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249021
SKU
V9781852249021
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Ref
99-15
About Heidi Williamson
orn in Norfolk in 1971, Heidi Williamson has lived in Stirling, Brussels and Salisbury. She currently lives in Norfolk. In 2008-09 she was poet-in-residence at the London Science Museum's Dana Centre. In 2008 she received an Arts Council award to complete her first collection, 'Electric Shadow' (Bloodaxe Books, 2011). Her work has been used to inspire poetry and science discussions ... Read more
Reviews for Electric Shadow
Heidi Williamson's poems are about contact with the haunted world. She understands uncertainty and loss, as well as the trace loss leaves behind as memory, memory that acts like a Blitz incendiary waiting to ignite later in life. The sensuousness of language is asserted - through tender explorations of our haunted fabric - George Szirtes. Williamson knows that ... Read more