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Feral Kate Potts

Feral By Kate Potts

Feral by Kate Potts

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Summary

Second collection by highly praised London poet. Poems on animal versus human, wilderness and civilisation. Her debut Pure Hustle was published by Bloodaxe in 2011. Feral is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Feral Summary

Feral by Kate Potts

These poems are luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between 'animal' and 'human'. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation, training their focus on the language we use to describe youth, social class, and the body. From iron horses to grizzly bears, from deep-water fish to scanderoons, Feral roams the limits of power, language, and love. Cinematic, playful, edgy, tender, startlingly imaginative and strange, Feral's voices carve out a space in the borderlands. Kate Potts' Whichever Music was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice in 2008 and shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Her first book-length collection, Pure Hustle, was published by Bloodaxe in 2011. Feral is her second collection and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Feral Reviews

Feral is a storehouse of manifold enchantments: a book in which lore and personal iconography are melded to startling effect. The technical assurance displayed here alongside a strong beating heart make for a sonically and emotionally rich reading, and re-reading, experience. This collection is "a feat of balance", as the poem "Iron Horse" has it, where each component gives shape and function to the elegant motion of the whole. -- Kayo Chingonyi
Intricate, vital-tender, dazzling work - Potts' poetry sings even as it bares its teeth. -- Eley Williams * on Feral *
These are poems of a marvellously observed, bodily interiority which engage with our animal selves, at a loss in the concrete warrens of our cities, as they starve or gorge, roam or home. The resulting book is deeply personal, compelling, occasionally hilarious and frequently unsettling as the "strange fish" of our thoughts emerge from their "iron guardedness" and hitch themselves to the amazing railings of these poems. And the radio poem The Blown Definitions is a wonder, a whole island mythos to itself. Kate Potts is one of the foremost writers of our generation. Buy this monstrously brilliant book. -- Fiona Benson * on Feral *

About Kate Potts

Kate Potts is a London-based poet, academic and editor. She is a visiting lecturer at Middlesex University and Royal Holloway, and a tutor at The Poetry School. She completed a practice-based PhD on the poetic radio play in 2017. Her pamphlet Whichever Music (tall-lighthouse) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice in 2008 and was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Her first full-length collection, Pure Hustle, was published by Bloodaxe in 2011. Her second collection, Feral (Bloodaxe Books, 2018), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Kate is co-director of Somewhere in Particular, a site-specific poetry organisation which aims to connect poetry performance to specific places and communities and to reach beyond conventional audiences.

Additional information

GOR009757790
9781780374161
178037416X
Feral by Kate Potts
Kate Potts
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
2018-09-27
80
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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