Red Gloves (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784109554)

In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Met Office Advises Caution, Rebecca Watts observes and tests the limits of humanity's engagement with the non-human. By turns lyrical and narrative, the poems examine familiar subjects - environmental crisis, hawks, hospitals, the sea, barbecues, flowers, Emily Dickinson - only to find their subjects staring, sometimes fighting, back. Nature and nurture, equally red in tooth and claw, power a book-long sparring match between the overthinking poet and the ever-thoughtless universe, between the craft's isolation and the world's irrepressible variety. Gloves on and gloves off, the poet's hands destroy and build, gather and scatter, caress and strike.

Author: Rebecca Watts
ISBN-10: 178410955X
ISBN-13: 9781784109554
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2020
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d