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The Iron Bridge

ISBN-13: 9781800173941
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Rebecca Hurst
Price: AUD $27.99
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Local release date: 26/06/2024
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: Rebecca Hursts first collection bridges memory and observation, noting the detail of the natural world and our changing relation to it. The books places are made familiar by walking. It encounters other worlds alive with new and recovered ideas and images – from the folk traditions of her Sussex childhood, to archival encounters with a nineteenth-century nurse-explorer, and her undergraduate training as a Kremlinologist. Her language is deeply rooted, as keenly aware of etymologies as of history. Shaped by myth, history and desire, the poems of The Iron Bridge are theatrical, fierce, music-infused.; Rebecca Hurst is a writer, opera-maker, illustrator and researcher based in Greater Manchester. Her poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Carcanets New Poetries VIII. She is the author of a poetry pamphlet, The Foxs Wedding (Emma Press, 2022). Rebecca has a PhD from the University of Manchester, and is co-founder of the Voicings Collective, an ensemble that devises new music theatre, and teaches creative writing in schools, universities, museums, and the community.; • First collection from Manchester-based author and contributor to Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII • From Sussex to Mexico, these poems travel far and wide, documenting tensions between embodied and inherited landscapes • First section encounters landscapes made familiar through walking, and made strange or ruptured by the impact of climate crisis • Part two, ‘An Explorer’s Handbook’, follows less well-trodden paths leading to an encounter with a Victorian nurse’s travelogue, exploring what it is that compels us to make art or travel instead of simply getting on with our lives • The landscapes of the closing section will be recognised by readers of fairy tales and to devotees of Angela Carter and Kate Bernheimer; One of the great pleasures of these poems is the way in which Parsons Wood is intimately known through such precisely placed language.
Judith Willson
Rebecca Hurst writes as a naturalist, a daughter rolled up into dirt like a woodlouse, a mother, the forest, a snowy singer. Shes my favourite unreliable narrator. Words are good but touch is better. Take The Iron Bridge. Shell let you walk ahead. Be pinched by the links. Take a scalding sip. Be magicked back to life.
Carol Mavor; Google Preview content