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The Kingdom

Name: The Kingdom
Brand: CARCANET PRESS
SKU: 9781800172593
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By Jane Draycott
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
Release Date: January 10, 2023
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 70

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The latest collection from multiple Forward- and T.S. Eliot Prize-nominated poet. Draycott teaches on postgraduate writing programmes at the universities of Oxford and Lancaster. Her fifth Carcanet collection, The Kingdom has its face turned towards the future, considering how we face the ever-continuing approach of the unknown. Includes shortlisted and award-winning new work on themes of hope and the desire forconnection. Includes poems that continue her conversation with the medieval imagination.

Jane Draycott’s previous collections from Carcanet Press include The Occupant (Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Over (T S Eliot Prize shortlist), Prince Rupert’s Drop (Forward Prize shortlist) and her 2011prize-winning translation of the the medieval dream-elegy Pearl. A recipient of the Keats Shelley Prize for Poetry, Draycott has been NL Letterenfonds Writer in Residence in Amsterdam and was winner of the2014 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. A Next Generation Poet 2004, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

'The word "quiet" should be applied to the chords and modulations of Draycott's eerie and beautiful poems. She listens, and therefore so do we.' - Sean O'Brien

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