Lairs
Published on 6. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-78172-666-2 (ISBN)
Description
What do animal dens have in common with mathematics? Lairs is darkly suggestive of secretive havens and shelters, but also frames the poem as an equation. This collection is both a kind of nest and a beautiful accumulation of dense detail. Lairs also highlights the contrast between noble aspirations and a messy reality, the poems' atmospheres being sometimes borrowed from the fervid pandemic lockdowns. The innovative style is daring and embraces complex music. Post-Brexit life is also a subtle strand in these poems, as they deflate and challenge establishment conservatism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bridgend
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Poetry Wales Press
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 137 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
104 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78172-666-2 (9781781726662)
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Born in Cheshire, Judy Brown studied English at Cambridge and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her pamphlet, Pillars of Salt (Templar Poetry, 2006), won the Templar Pamphlet Competition. Judy's first poetry collection, Loudness (Seren, 2011), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Her most recent, Crowd Sensations (Seren, 2016), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Second Collection Prize.