Flood by Shaw, Clare

Flood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780374208)

Vendor: Clare Shaw
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Format: Paperback
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Flood by Shaw, Clare

Flood

$16.95
Flood by Shaw, Clare

Flood

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the country submerged, including her home town. Flood offers an eye-witness account of those events, from rainfall to rescue, but ripples out from there. Intimately interwoven with the breakdown of a relationship, flooding serves as a powerful metaphor for wider experiences of loss, destruction and recovery. Testifying equally to the forces that destroy us and save us, flood runs through the book in different forms - bereavement and trauma, the Savile scandal, life in an asylum. Yet ultimately, this is a story of one life as it is unravelled and rebuilt, written from the heart and from the North, in a language as dangerous and sustaining as water.

Author: Clare Shaw
ISBN-10: 1780374208
ISBN-13: 9781780374208
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Language: English
Published: 06/21/2018
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d
By Clare Shaw
By Clare Shaw
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Clare Shaw was born in Burnley in 1972. Their first two collections with Bloodaxe were Straight Ahead (2006), which attracted a Forward Prize Highly Commended for Best Single Poem, and Head On (2012), which according to the Times Literary Supplement is 'fierce, memorable and visceral'. Their later collections are Flood (2018), a New Writing North Read Regional title in 2019, and Towards a General Theory of Love (2022) which won a Northern Writers' Award and was a Poetry Society Book of the Year.

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