
Now You Can Look
Julia Bird(Author)
The Emma Press
Will be published approx. on 12. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-910139-84-4 (ISBN)
Description
Reviews / Votes
'Beginning with her childhood and taking us on a sensory and emotive journey through adolescence and onwards to her role as a wife and mother, Julia's poems sparkle with wit, intrigue and richly captivating imagery. '- Caitlin Miller, Irisi Magazine "In such images, Bird's poetry shows how artwork is not separate to everyday life, but entwined with it - and, moreover, bound up with its transience: in these poems, omelettes, snowmen, marrows are all short-lived moments of artistic beauty. " - Jonathan Taylor, Everybody's Reviewing "This deftly composed poem sequence, paired with Anna Vaivare's vibrant illustrations, moves through the life of a female artist during the early part of the twentieth century. Beginning from age nine, towards and past the point where the unnamed artist has a child of her own, Now You Can Look has a sharp, immediate quality which pulls you firmly into a life which both did and did not exist - vanished, imagined, or perhaps something else." PBS Bulletin -- Poetry Book Society * PBS Bulletin *
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Winnersh
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
Full colour; 6 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 200 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
141 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910139-84-4 (9781910139844)
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Julia Bird is a poet and poetry programmer. Her poetry collections Hannah and the Monk (2008) and Twenty-four Seven Blossom (2013) were published by Salt Publishing, and the illustrated pamphlet Now You Can Look (2017) by The Emma Press. With Mike Sims, she published the poetry and artist's book Paper Trail (Blown Rose, 2019) and A Joy Forever: a walk out with John Keats (Paekakariki Press, 2021). Anna Vaivare is an illustrator and architect who lives in Riga, Latvia. She has illustrated two children's books and was awarded the Janis Baltvilks Prize for Book Art for her work in Forage for Porridge (Liels un mazs, 2015), a collection of poems for children by Leons Briedis. She also draws comic strips. You can find more of her work on her
website: www.annavaivare.lv
website: www.annavaivare.lv