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Book of Days

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The highly anticipated second collection from this Forward Prize-winning poet. Book of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Cumbria and currently lives in York. She is the author of Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018). Further publications include Sea Change, an illustrated pamphlet based on a commission from the National Trust about the Durham Coast (Guillemot Press, 2021, with Katrina Porteous), and Harp Duet (2016).
* Previous collection won the 2018 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award (Society of Authors) & a PBS Recommendation - also shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize & the 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize * Book of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain - part poetry and part travel narrative * A quest of faith and a search for sisterhood and friendship, as well as a response to problematic gender and racial politics inherent in the Church and Europe’s medieval heritage * Interrogates the possibilities and contradictions of a distinctly twenty-first century pilgrimage
'Hers is surely one of the freshest new voices to emerge in years' - Caitriona O'Reilly
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