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Latch

ISBN-13: 9781800173217
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Rebecca Goss
Price: AUD $29.99
Stock: 12 in stock
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Local release date: 27/09/2023
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 80 pages Weight: 120g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: Latch is a study in the act of returning. It is about reconnecting to a place, Suffolk, and understanding what it once held, and what it now holds for a woman and her family. These poems unearth the deep, lasting attachments people have with the East Anglian countryside, gathering voices of labour, love and loss proving a landscape can both harm and heal us. In this landscape, and in her fourth full-length collection, Rebecca Goss again draws on her distinctive ability to plough difficult, emotional terrain. Here is an anatomy of marriage, her parents' and her own, while the natural world becomes an arena for the emotional push and pull that exists between mothers and daughters. The return to a childhood home recalls young siblings retreating into nature as they steer the adult lives that disintegrate around them. This rich and unpredictable collection weaves memoir with magic realism, secrets with myth, light with dark. Readers will find themselves beckoned to barns, fields, weirs, to experience both refuge and disturbance: we are shown a county's stars, and why a poet needed to return to live under them.; Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk. Her second collection, Her Birth, (Carcanet/Northern House, 2013) was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature. In 2014, Rebecca was selected for the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets. Rebecca's third full-length collection, Girl, was published with Carcanet/Northern House in 2019. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and a PhD by Publication from the University of East Anglia. She was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge 2020-22 and at the University of Suffolk 2022-23.; 'Rebecca Goss's voice is quietly passionate. Her forms are exquisitely crafted.' - Vicki Feaver; Google Preview content