Seeing Eye
Published on 6. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-78864-050-3 (ISBN)
Description
This a collection about looking, and seeing. Through it runs the story of the transformation of the poet's poor eyesight after cataract surgery. The poems look closely at places: a city by the sea, a small island, a valley in the Pennines, and at small natural objects: daisies, woodlice, a tiny spider. They also look into stories from the history of these and other places and of the poet's family.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Blaenau Ffestiniog
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78864-050-3 (9781788640503)
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Chris Considine is a poet and former school-teacher who lived for many years in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, before moving to Plymouth. Her publications include St. Cuthbert and Bystanders (Redbeck Press, 2001) and Swaledale Sketchbook (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2002), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in the best first collection category in 2002. Her first full collection, Learning to Look, was published by Peterloo Poets in 2003, followed by Quarll, also from Peterloo, in 2006 and Behind the Lines (Cinnamon Press, 2011). At the beginning of 2004 Chris was a Hawthornden Fellow.