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Jean Sprackland

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
15 October 2007

Poetry

Winner of the 2007 Costa Poetry Award

Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped.

These are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary- the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive. Bracken may run wild across the planet 'waiting for the moment/to pounce on the accident/of the discarded match' but there are also the significant wonders of children and the natural beauty of the world they've inherited. Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth.

By: Jean Sprackland
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 87g
ISBN: 9780224080866
ISBN 10: 0224080865
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 15 October 2007
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean Sprackland's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day was shortlisted for the Forward First Book Award in 1999. Her second collection, Hard Water, was published by Cape in 2003 and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award and the Whitbread Poetry Award. In 2004 Jean Sprackland was named by the Poetry Book Society as one of the 'Next Generation' poets. She lives in Southport.

Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2007
Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2007.

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