Woman's Head as Jug
Published on 15. September 2013
84 pages
978-1-908376-29-9 (ISBN)
Description
Especially appealing to anyone interested in the visual arts, this new collection is the result of collaboration between poet Jackie Wills and painter Jane Fordham. The poems have a touch as deft as the seamstresses and other craftspeople who populate the book, before pulling out into the wider worlds of mythology, folklore and the visceral routine of daily life.
"She is at her best when most surprising, bringing flashes of the extraordinary to the everyday." - Christina Patterson, The Independent
"Her talent for thoughtful... observation, accompanied by brisk injections of the personal and the strikingly real, is indisputably clear." - Kate North
Jackie Wills's most recent poetry collection is Commandments (Arc, 2007). Her first, Powder Tower (Arc, 1995), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, while Party (Leviathan, 2000) was acclaimed by Ruth Padel in the Independent on Sunday. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, and her work appears on a dress by designer Helen Storey, in the animated film Alphabetic (2006), and on a path in Farnham by potter Julian Belmonte. She lives in Brighton.
This title is also available from Amazon as an eBook.
"She is at her best when most surprising, bringing flashes of the extraordinary to the everyday." - Christina Patterson, The Independent
"Her talent for thoughtful... observation, accompanied by brisk injections of the personal and the strikingly real, is indisputably clear." - Kate North
Jackie Wills's most recent poetry collection is Commandments (Arc, 2007). Her first, Powder Tower (Arc, 1995), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, while Party (Leviathan, 2000) was acclaimed by Ruth Padel in the Independent on Sunday. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, and her work appears on a dress by designer Helen Storey, in the animated film Alphabetic (2006), and on a path in Farnham by potter Julian Belmonte. She lives in Brighton.
This title is also available from Amazon as an eBook.
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Woman's Head as Jug
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11/2013
Arc Publications
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Woman's Head as Jug
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10/2013
Arc Publications
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Person
Jackie Wills has published four collections of poetry; the most recent is Commandments (Arc, 2007). Her first, Powder Tower (Arc) was shortlisted for the 1995 T S Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. In 2004, Mslexia selected her as one of the top 10 new poets of the decade. Her work appears on a dress by designer Helen Storey, in the animated film Alphabetic and on a path by potter Julian Belmonte as well as in several anthologies. She has worked as a journalist, editor and creative writing tutor and undertaken a number of residencies in businesses and schools.
Content
A lone leaping woman / Owner of a mangle / Feather-wife / Saturday girl / Grace-wife / Herring girl / Dorset buttonmaker / Blacksmith / Corset-maker / Fripperer / Boarding house keeper / Ale-wife / II Forest choir / Words for women / Woman's head as jug / Cliff / La Fontasse / Calanque / Fireworks on the Feast of the Assumption / The seals' goodbye / Mackerel shoal / Her year / Translations from the silence of colour / Canopy / Balance / Moults / The change / What she became / Female ancestor / Five aunts / III SWEATS Elephants / She wants a baby / It's unclear how much of a man she needs / A woman without a man / When she finds herself at the top of the stairs / Libido / Clots / Four professors at the menopause symposium / Her beard / Spiders have placed a cataplasm of webs / Smear / Hypothalamus / Superannuation / Her mirror face is spinning / Veins / Her troubles / Her heart / Trace / Atrophy / IV Return / Imagining my great grandmother / The air on Lewes Road / The kitchen floor / Dirty business / The day before he left / Landlord visiting the student quarter / Sandwich man advertising pizza / Recovering you / Stolen identity / Summer fruit / Willow / Yew tree / Sheepcote Valley / Gyratory / Funeral horses / Biographical Note /
