Her Birth by Rebecca Goss
The death of a baby daughter inspires a candid, piercing study of grief.
'It must be at once the most painfully personal and the most restrained and sparsely written poetry collection of the year.. It's poetry of witness. The language is simple; the images are simple; the feeling is all. It's feeling no one wants to have, and it is handled with immense grace.' --Katy Evans-Bush, Poetry London 'Something close to a poetic journal, the poems are by turns meditative and bewildered, uttered in the quietest of delicately weighted language, as if the failing child and the experience alike could not bear too much pressure or noise.' --Jane Draycott, Canto magazine 'She [writes] with astonishing success, to which the key is a brilliant sparseness consistently adding up to more than the sum of its parts. Her linguistic tact and her judgement never falter...' --Lawrence Sail, Warwick Review 'The poems have an almost unbearable beauty.' --Peter Kennedy, poetrywivenhoe 'The poems in 'Her Birth' unfold their story of love, loss and grief for a baby daughter with pared-down precision and scorching intensity.' --Helen Dunmore, author, The Siege
Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk. Her first full-length collection, The Anatomy of Structures, was published by Flambard Press in 2010. Her second collection, Her Birth (Carcanet/Northern House, 2013), was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature. In 2014, Rebecca was selected for the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets. Her second pamphlet Carousel, a collaboration with the photographer Chris Routledge, was published by Guillemot Press in 2018. Rebecca’s third full-length collection, Girl, was published with Carcanet/Northern House in 2019 and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019. Her fourth collection, Latch, was published with Carcanet in 2023 and longlisted for the New Angle Prize 2025. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and a PhD by Publication from the University of East Anglia. Rebecca has worked for the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) since 2020. She was a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge 2020-22 and at the University of Suffolk 2022-23. She is now an Associate Fellow, contributing to the RLF's workplace and community projects. Author photo by Natalie J Watts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847772381 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847772382 |
| Titel | Her Birth |
| Autor | Rebecca Goss |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2013-07-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 80 |
| Preise | Short-listed for Warwick Prize for Writing 2015, Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2013 |
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