Iron Bridge

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025Highly commended in the Forward Prizes 2024Rebecca Hurst's first collection bridges memory and observation, noting the detail of the natural world and our changing relation to it. The book's places are made familiar by walking. It encounters other worlds alive with new and recovered ideas and images – from the folk traditions of her Sussex childhood, to archival encounters with a nineteenth-century nurse-explorer, and her undergraduate training as a Kremlinologist. Her language is deeply rooted, as keenly aware of etymologies as of history. Shaped by myth, history and desire, the poems of The Iron Bridge are theatrical, fierce, music-infused.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-28
Mått:135 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt:154 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN:9781800173941
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025

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Rebecca Hurst is a writer, opera-maker, illustrator and researcher based in Greater Manchester. Her poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII. She is the author of a poetry pamphlet, The Fox’s Wedding (Emma Press, 2022). Rebecca has a PhD from the University of Manchester, and is co-founder of the Voicings Collective, an ensemble that devises new music theatre, and teaches creative writing in schools, universities, museums, and the community.

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'Rebecca Hurst writes as a naturalist, a daughter rolled up into dirt like a woodlouse, a mother, the forest, a snowy singer. She's my favourite unreliable narrator. Words are good but touch is better. Take The Iron Bridge. She'll let you walk ahead. Be pinched by the links. Take a scalding sip. Be magicked back to life.'Carol Mavor