The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems "possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night" (The New York Times Book Review)
If you respect the dead
and recall where they died
by this time tomorrow
there will be nowhere to walk.
-"Earth"
With gravity and resplendence, Colosseum confronts ruin in the ancient world and in the living moment, from historical accounts and from firsthand experience. Displaced from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Katie Ford returns this powerful report attesting to the storm's ferocity and its aftershock. Ford examines other catastrophes-those biblical, obscured by time, and those that play out daily, irrefutably, in the media. Colosseum is an essential, moving book in its insistence that our fates are intertwined and that devastation does not discriminate.
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 214 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
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978-1-55597-501-2 (9781555975012)
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Katie Ford MSc ACS has worked as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist for over 20 years. Puffy Puffs Up is her first picture book. Katie loves helping children to communicate and building their confidence and resilience so that they believe in themselves, just like Puffy! Katie is fascinated by animals and their amazing abilities. In nature, pufferfish really do puff up, seahorses camouflage, dolphins dive right out of the water and manta rays communicate with their horns in an under-the-sea equivalent of sign language! Just like the characters in Puffy Puffs Up, we are all different and Katie is passionate about making sure that all children feel valued and understood. Katie loves reading and writing stories and poetry, singing and playing the guitar and exploring the Kent countryside with her family.
