Scenes from Life on Earth
Published on 15. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-78463-277-9 (ISBN)
Description
Addressing the loss of the poet's mother - as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death, and the natural world - Scenes from Life on Earth explores how we grieve and remember those we love. Simmonds continues to write through the prism of her faith, offering insights and wisdom on the circuit of life, of life's endings, and the promise of reconciliation.
Reviews / Votes
Some of her phrases are visceral. Others as delicate as silk. But they stick in our minds. Simmonds finds humour where we least expect it, beauty when we are looking into shadows. She observes life and death for us, as her imagination flies about her world - a world that becomes ours. Life could be so complicated as could death, but Simmonds simplifies it and welcomes us with open arms. Witty and charming. Her good grace, her good humour overcomes sadness. The humour draws us in and wraps its arms about us. -- Jon Wilkins * Everyone's Reviewing *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 134 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
94 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78463-277-9 (9781784632779)
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Person
Kathryn Simmonds' first book of poetry Sunday at the Skin Launderette won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2008. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Love and Fallout, her first novel, was a finalist in the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize before it was published. In 2013-14 she was the first poet-in-residence at the Charles Causley Trust in Launceston, Cornwall.