Red Gloves by Rebecca Watts
In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Met Office Advises Caution, Rebecca Watts observes and tests the limits of humanity's engagement with the non-human. By turns lyrical and narrative, the poems examine familiar subjects - environmental crisis, hawks, hospitals, the sea, barbecues, flowers, Emily Dickinson - only to find their subjects staring, sometimes fighting, back. Nature and nurture, equally red in tooth and claw, power a book-long sparring match between the overthinking poet and the ever-thoughtless universe, between the craft's isolation and the world's irrepressible variety. Gloves on and gloves off, the poet's hands destroy and build, gather and scatter, caress and strike.
'Deceptively simple, quietly shrewd' - Will Barrett, The Poetry School (on The Met Office Advises Caution)
Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk in 1983 and currently lives in Cambridge. Her debut poetry collection, The Met Office Advises Caution, was published by Carcanet in 2016. She is also the editor of Elizabeth Jennings: New Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2019).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784109554 |
| ISBN 10 | 178410955X |
| Title | Red Gloves |
| Author | Rebecca Watts |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-06-25 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Gladstone's Library Writers in Residence Award 2022 |
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