The Heel of Bernadette by Colette Bryce
Colette Bryce's first collection is a book of songs: songs of kinship and desire, Ireland and Spain, of myth and belief. Bryce's sensuous and sinuous verse follows the convoluted lines of fate and political divide, and turns on questions of love and faith -- the poet's relentlessly clarifying sense leaving them strengthened or shaken. In its insistent music -- whatever dark and surreal turns it might take -- Bryce's poetry is ultimately a celebration of singing and of singing out, for its own sake. The Heel of Bernadette announces one of the most unusual and distinctive voices to have emerged from Northern Ireland for a generation.
Colette Bryce was born in Derry in 1970. After studying in England, she settled in London for some years where she received an Eric Gregory Award in 1995 and won the National Poetry Competition in 2003. She has published four poetry collections with Picador, most recently The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (2014), recipient of a Christopher Ewart-Biggs Award in memory of Seamus Heaney. She has held literary fellowships at various universities in the UK, Ireland and the US, and currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne where she works as a freelance writer and editor. She received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry in 2010. Her Selected Poems was shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ Week. She was selected as one of Val McDermid's ten most exciting LGBTQI+ writers in the UK in association with the British Council in 2019. www.colettebryce.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330371933 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330371932 |
| Title | The Heel of Bernadette |
| Author | Colette Bryce |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2000-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Forward Prize for Poetry Best First Collection 2000 (UK) |
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