Zoë Brigleys third collection Hand & Skull draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her perception of a sense of hollowness in particular communities there. Other strands include the horror of violence, especially violence towards women, contrasted with poems which offer comfort by working as beatitudes or commentaries on life as it exists now, seeking a way of being that is more beautiful, often in relation to her children. There are also epistolary poems, letters to or from real, imagined and remembered women like the artist Georgia OKeeffe, Thomas Hardys Tess, and Edna Pontellier from Kate Chopins The Awakening. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 23 May 2019
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781780374727
About Zoe Brigley
Zoë Brigley (Thompson) grew up in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley of Wales and is now an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University in the US. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and received a Welsh Academy bursary in 2005. Her first book of poems The Secret (Bloodaxe Books 2007) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008. Her second collection Conquest (Bloodaxe Books 2012) was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation as was her third collection Hand & Skull (Bloodaxe Books 2019). A book of her non-fiction essays Notes from a Swing State was published by Parthian Books in 2019. She also researches violence against women and is co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays Feminism Literature and Rape Narratives (Routledge 2010). She co-edited the anthology 100 Poems to Save the Earth (Seren Books 2021) with Kristian Evans.