Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson

Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson

Passionate and affirming, the poems in this collection have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they trace a path from personal loss to spiritual struggle and eventual epiphany, finding echoes in the vividly imagined experience of various mystics, including Rabia of Basra, John Donne and Simone Weil.

‘What it means to parent and be parented, to love or be loved, to feel grief or be filled with faith are questions that Rosie Jackson examines in this extraordinary collectionThere is a restless energy and a searching intelligence at work here – creating startling, moving poems that explore the porous, shifting boundary between the historical and the contemporary’ – KIM MOORE; ‘In these honest, eloquent, compelling poems, Rosie Jackson enters all the realms – physical, emotional, mental and particularly the spiritual – as the collection unfolds. Her evocations of the lives of the mystics are a rare pleasure. Love Leans over the Table confirms Jackson as a searching, accomplished and necessary contemporary voice’ – MONIZA ALVI; ‘The extraordinary thing about Rosie Jackson’s poems is that she is so utterly present in all of them, her voice lit up by a “joyful shining.” The whole book brims with life and energy and it really is quite wonderful’ – JENNY LEWIS

ROSIE JACKSON has a first-class degree in English & Comparative Literature from the University of Warwick, a D. Phil. from York, and has taught in many educational settings, including the University of East Anglia, Nottingham Trent, Bristol UWE, Skyros Writers’ Lab, Cortijo Romero, and the Open College of the Arts. Her poetry is published in Acumen, Ambit, Domestic Cherry, Frogmore Papers, High Window, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Scintilla, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter’s House, and other journals and anthologies, has been set for GCSE and used for a sculpture by Andrew Whittle in the grounds of a Dorchester hospital. She was a Hawthornden fellow 2017. Awards include 1st prize at Wells 2018, 2nd prize at Torbay 2018, 1st prize in the Stanley Spencer Poetry Competition 2017. Rosie lives in Frome, Somerset, where she teaches creative writing workshops. www.rosiejackson.org.uk

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ISBN 13	9781915048073
ISBN 10	1915048079
Title	Love Leans over the Table
Author	Rosie Jackson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Two Rivers Press
Year published	2023-04-21
Number of pages	100
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