Bear
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1780373325 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The debut poetry collection from British poet, Chrissy Williams. Poems of love and death, life, loss and grief, in which mortality is confronted by the ephemera of popular culture.
These poems are as close and intimate as a bear breathing down your neck, about to take you in its arms or tear you limb from limb; as strange and unexpected as a bear playing the piano and as beautiful and inexplicable as love.' - Luke Kennard; 'In spite of its almost absurdist character and apparent playfulness, Chrissy Williams's Bear is a collection of poems that deal with all that is most serious in human life. From start to finish, these wonderfully various, entertaining and original poems speak the language of compassion, intimacy and faith.' - Annie Freud; 'A pleasure in pluralism.' - Richard O'Brien Poetry London . 'Chrissy Williams is my new favourite poet
She has published six pamphlets: Flying into the Bear (HappenStance Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards, and Epigraphs (if p then q, 2014) was featured on Radio 3's The Verb. Her first book-length collection, Bear, is published by Bloodaxe in 2017. Her father is English, her mother is Italian, and she was raised in Devon. Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor living in London. . Her poems and critical writing have appeared in various magazin