Blood child:

In her third full-length collection 'Blood Child', Eleanor Rees hones and extends her startling use of language and imagery to enact the many aspects of change - fleeting, elusive or moored in a negotiation of the material world as she roams through the landscapes of self and city. The ide...

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Main Author: Rees, Eleanor, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:In her third full-length collection 'Blood Child', Eleanor Rees hones and extends her startling use of language and imagery to enact the many aspects of change - fleeting, elusive or moored in a negotiation of the material world as she roams through the landscapes of self and city. The idea of generation is explored in all its possibilities, the 'child' and the 'girl' are recurrent motifs, immanent and on the threshold of a magical or imaginative transformation. Landscapes are crossed, swum, burrowed under or flown above; skins and edges are sheared or lost, new coverings found and remade. Rees's poems ask how new routes can be forged across shifting terrain and she offers the emergent space of the imagination as the only answer. 'These are shape-shifting poems from a shape-shifting poet, who listens to what the place has to say and always keeps her feet on the ground.' Paul Kingsnorth On Eleanor Rees's previous work: 'Eleanor Rees's debut collection offers up a heartfelt hymn to he...
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781802079173
1802079173
9781781388563
1781388563

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