Blood Child (Pavilion Poetry) - Softcover

Eleanor Rees

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781381801 ISBN 13: 9781781381809

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In her third full-length collection 'Blood Child', Eleanor Rees hones and extends her startling use of language and imagery to enact the many aspects of change - fleeting, elusive or moored in a negotiation of the material world as she roams through the landscapes of self and city. The idea of generation is explored in all its possibilities, the 'child' and the 'girl' are recurrent motifs, immanent and on the threshold of a magical or imaginative transformation. Landscapes are crossed, swum, burrowed under or flown above; skins and edges are sheared or lost, new coverings found and remade. Rees's poems ask how new routes can be forged across shifting terrain and she offers the emergent space of the imagination as the only answer.

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Review:

'These poems are an exquisite unearthing of meaning in nature. They trace metamorphosis, find mind in everything, and suggest not so much what things look like to humans but what they feel like to themselves.' --Jay Griffiths, author of 'Kith:The Riddle of the Childscape'

'Together, Blood Child and Riverine convey seductively cross-fading time-scapes; it is in the end this quality that makes these remarkable poems linger in the memory, unsettling and disquieting, redefining so-called realities. Dark, visceral, her use of language and image is controlled and concentrated, and through it the message is one of connection. World and human personality are intimately woven together; we are not observers of the game but part of it, belonging to the continuum. It comes down to time, the context through which we move; past and present occupy the same space within Rees's theory of relativity, and chronology for her is measured both in every day and cosmic terms, just as local and universal, yesterday, today and tomorrow brush against one another, with us rushing but static in their midst.' --Sean Street, Tears in the Fence

About the Author:

Eleanor Rees is the author of Andraste's Hair (Salt, 2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards, and Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009). She often collaborates with other writers, musicians and artists and works to commission. Eleanor has worked extensively as a local poet in the community. She lives in Liverpool.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781381801
• ISBN 13: 9781781381809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64