Highly Commended in the 2017 Forward Prize
In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees.
Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcott's poems are drawn directly from the natural world, questioning ideas of the porosity of boundaries between the human and non-human and teeming with detail. A series of lyrical charms inspired by Anglo-Saxon texts draw on the specificity of the botanical and its spoken heritage, suggesting a relevance that resonates today.
Westcott's poems are alive to the beautiful in the commonplace and offer up a precise honouring of the wild, while retaining a deeply-felt sense of connection with a planet in peril.
| ISBN: | 9781781382929 |
| Publication date: | 26th February 2016 |
| Author: | Sarah Westcott |
| Publisher: | Pavilion Poetry an imprint of Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 65 pages |
| Series: | Pavilion Poetry |
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Poetry by individual poets |
Highly Commended in the 2017 Forward PrizeIn her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees.
Slant Light features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
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Slant Light was written by Sarah Westcott and published by Pavilion Poetry an imprint of Liverpool University Press
Slant Light has 65 pages
Yes it is part of Pavilion Poetry series