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Hard Water
Jean Sprackland
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Description for Hard Water
Paperback. In this second collection of her poetry, Jean Sprackland shows us the vertigo and vulnerability of human experience with clarity. Her poems are awash with water: a flooded forest, acid rain, an inland tidal wave, jelly fish washed up on the beach that "lay like saints/unharvested, luminous". Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94.
Though firmly rooted in the domestic, natural world, Jean Sprackland's poems are thrilling excursions into the lives that we live alongside our everyday ones: the lives we are aware of in dreams, in grief, in love. She shows us the vertigo and vulnerability of human experience with great clarity and precision, tenderness and care.
These are vivid poems full of light and weather and water: a flooded forest, acid rain, an inland tidal wave, an ocean of broken glass; jellyfish washed up on the beach that 'lay like saints/ unharvested, luminous'.
There is an arresting imagination ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224069595
SKU
V9780224069595
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland is the author of five previous poetry collections, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She has also published a book of non-fiction, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize. She lives in London.
Reviews for Hard Water
This collection establishes Jean Sprackland as a definite new talent. These poems in Hard Water have the exhilarating quality of freshness and truth: poems of memory and place, religion and childhood, captured with relish in a textured and physical language. Added to this are a gift for the colloquial and a subtle, sexy humour. This is a hugely enjoyable collection ... Read more