Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2008.
Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "Honest, observant poems from a collection which is both wonderfully unsettling and deeply life-affirming."
At the heart of many of these poems lies an apprehension of things being lost or destroyed, and with this a need for consolation. The question of how we look for, or create, such solace - whether in faith or the rain, by doing a puzzle or watching TV - is one that threads through the book. In this work - her second collection - there is an increasing scope and depth to language as Stoddart seeks to explore paradoxes: poems of motherhood are double-edged celebrations, grief must come to some good.
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At the heart of many of these poems lies an apprehension of things being lost or destroyed, and with this a need for consolation. The question of how we look for, or create, such solace - whether in faith or the rain, by doing a puzzle or watching TV - is one that threads through the book.
Salvation Jane features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, General Fiction, Fiction, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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Salvation Jane was written by Greta Stoddart and published by Anvil Press Poetry
Salvation Jane has 60 pages
