The Observances - Softcover

Miller, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906188157 ISBN 13: 9781906188153

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd., 2015

Synopsis

Winner of the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. Shortlisted for the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award. In the informal rituals of the tide remaking its tideline, of a painter absorbed in the act of painting or of an old couple greeting the night, the English poet Kate Miller sees and charts the creative process at work. As its title suggests, Miller's striking debut collection explores perception, the poet's eye and ear trained on distances that stretch beyond comfort zones. This is a book full of movement: even quiet reflections on home and family life are rarely still. Throughout the collection Miller dwells on the unfixed and restless image and shows herself as subject to it - to the difficult illusion of physical energy in sculpture, to the changeability of skies and the insistent rhythm and presence of the sea.

About this title

Review:

'A brilliant debut' --The Observer

About the Author:

The English poet, Kate Miller, grew up in Hampshire and now lives in London. In 2012 she completed her PhD while teaching Poetry (modern and historical) courses in the English department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was awarded the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize in 2008 and has received a number of other awards. Selected for Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt) and again in 2013, her poems have recently been seen in Long Poem Magazine, The Reader, Poetry Review, Warwick Review, and the TLS where she also contributes an occasional column introducing a 'Poem of the Week'. She co-hosts readings and workshops for the Southwark Stanza of the Poetry Society and is often asked to read at London's poetry venues, bookshops and watering holes, including at the inaugural Open Weekend for The Guardian in 2012.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1906188157
• ISBN 13: 9781906188153
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 86