Notes from a Bright Field - Softcover

Cook, Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956892191 ISBN 13: 9780956892195

Publisher: Cultured Llama, 2013

Synopsis

Rose Cook's Notes From a Bright Field is 'a single quiet path, in and out', capturing the transitory beauties of the everyday: a mother's ashes imagined as 'Lux flakes'; the 'fruit-gummed glass' of a cathedral. Where the poems' themes are of nature, loss and the spiritual, these are grounded in concrete imagery like 'the clack-clack of the shell and the bones'. Rose Cook is one of the South-West's best loved poets. An Apples & Snakes poet, she is a regular performer of her work, and is co-founder of the poetry and performance groups One Night Stanza and Dangerous Cardigans. In their transparency and deceptive simplicity Rose Cook's poems reveal pure and hidden depths in nature, memory and loss, celebrating and questioning the fragility of everyday interactions. To read Notes From a Bright Field is to be renewed in body, mind and spirit. Anthony Wilson Rose Cook's poems are often poignant, reflecting the many variables of ordinary lives, but always with a lightness of touch, an acceptance of what it is to be human, and a singular inwardness that delights. Denise McSheehy

Edition details

• Publisher: Cultured Llama
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956892191
• ISBN 13: 9780956892195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104