Description
Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022
A PBS Recommendation Summer 2022
In her debut collection, Denise Saul explores family and identity as she tells the story of a mother's illness and subsequent aphasia, and a daughter's ongoing role as carer. At the heart of their relationship is an awareness of the inadequacies of language to name painful experiences as together they start to know the world afresh. Deeply affecting, the book finds a space for both the extraordinary and the ordinary, balancing all that is between. Such betweenness creates a space to explore wider dynamics of power, and the epiphanies and aftershocks of ongoing loss.
Author: Denise Saul
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 05/01/2022
Pages: 52
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.77w x 0.27d
ISBN13: 9781800854857
ISBN10: 1800854854
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 21st Century
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022
A PBS Recommendation Summer 2022
In her debut collection, Denise Saul explores family and identity as she tells the story of a mother's illness and subsequent aphasia, and a daughter's ongoing role as carer. At the heart of their relationship is an awareness of the inadequacies of language to name painful experiences as together they start to know the world afresh. Deeply affecting, the book finds a space for both the extraordinary and the ordinary, balancing all that is between. Such betweenness creates a space to explore wider dynamics of power, and the epiphanies and aftershocks of ongoing loss.
Author: Denise Saul
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 05/01/2022
Pages: 52
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.77w x 0.27d
ISBN13: 9781800854857
ISBN10: 1800854854
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 21st Century
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
About the Author
Denise is the author of two pamphlets. White Narcissi (Flipped Eye Publishing) was Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and House of Blue (Rack Press) was PBS Pamphlet Recommendation. She is the recipient of Poetry Society's Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and Fellow of The Complete Works. Denise holds a PhD in Creative Writing (poetry) from University of Roehampton. She was awarded Arts Council England's Grant for the Arts Award, for the delivery of her video poem collaborative project, Silent Room: A Journey of Language. Her project can be found at http: //www.silent-room.net.