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Her Birth
Rebecca Goss
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Description for Her Birth
Paperback. The death of a baby daughter inspires a candid, piercing study of grief in this Forward Prize-shortlisted collection by Rebecca Goss. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 104.
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'.
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'.
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
104g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847772381
SKU
V9781847772381
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About Rebecca Goss
Rebecca Goss was born in 1974 and grew up in Suffolk. She studied English at Liverpool John Moores University and has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University. Her first full-length collection, The Anatomy of Structures, was published in 2010 by Flambard Press. She has recently moved back to Suffolk after twenty years in Liverpool, where she taught creative ... Read more
Reviews for Her Birth
'It must be at once the most painfully personal and the most restrained and sparsely written poetry collection of the year... It's poetry of witness. The language is simple; the images are simple; the feeling is all. It's feeling no one wants to have, and it is handled with immense grace.'
Katy Evans-Bush, Poetry London 'Something close to a poetic ... Read more
Katy Evans-Bush, Poetry London 'Something close to a poetic ... Read more