21st Century
A01=Carola Luther
Author_Carola Luther
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First Collections
Product details
- ISBN 9781857547672
- Weight: 91g
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2004
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Walking the Animals is a sort of travel book: it brings together inner and outer landscapes, the wet skies of the Pennines and the drought of the South African lowveld; landscapes of loss, landscapes of longing. Carola Luther tracks journeys between disparate worlds, between north and south, earth and air, fantasy and fact, the future, the present. Her poems explore dislocation and search, and the importance of relationship in establishing a sense of place.
In her first collection, Carola Luther makes a new kind of space in poetry, both impassioned and level-headed.
In her first collection, Carola Luther makes a new kind of space in poetry, both impassioned and level-headed.
Carola Luther’s most recent collection On the Way to Jerusalem Farm was published by Carcanet Press in September 2021, and has been shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Her two earlier collections, Walking the Animals (2004) and Arguing with Malarchy (2011) were also published by Carcanet Press.
Walking the Animals was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection in 2004. Carola was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust in 2012, and the Trust published her poetry pamphlet Herd in the same year.
She was born in South Africa, and moved to the UK in 1981. She now lives and works in the Yorkshire Pennines.
