Low (Paperback)
Chrissy Williams
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Add to basketPaperback. This new collection from one of Britain's most innovative poets is an exploration of identity in the face of loss. At its heart is a series of poems about the desolation of miscarriage. These poems try to understand the many different means we use to come closer to articulating, and avoiding, experience. Drawing on the language of comedy, improvisation, drag and clown, Low interrogates humour's role in enacting the possibility of change. A thought-provoking, irreverent and challenging book, Low exemplifies Chrissy Williams' ability to find 'seriousness in the apparently trivial and ephemeral' (Poetry Review). Chrissy Williams' first collection Bear (Bloodaxe) was one of The Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year in 2017. She has also published several pamphlets, one of which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. Low is her second full-length collection. This second collection from one of Britain's most innovative poets is an exploration of identity in the face of loss. At its heart is a series of poems about the desolation of miscarriage. Chrissy Williams' first collection Bear (Bloodaxe) was one of The Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year in 2017. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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This second collection from one of Britain's most innovative poets is an exploration of identity in the face of loss. At its heart is a series of poems about the desolation of miscarriage. These poems try to understand the many different means we use to come closer to articulating, and avoiding, experience. Drawing on the language of comedy, improvisation, drag and clown, Low interrogates humour’s role in enacting the possibility of change. A thought-provoking, irreverent and challenging book, Low exemplifies Chrissy Williams' ability to find 'seriousness in the apparently trivial and ephemeral' (Poetry Review).
Chrissy Williams' first collection Bear (Bloodaxe) was one of The Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year in 2017. She has also published several pamphlets, one of which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. Low is her second full-length collection.
'With an exquisite ear, Chrissy Williams selects thrown-away phrases and builds them into ingenious, painful, funny and illuminating mechanisms that move in ways you don’t expect them to. The best new poetry that you will read this year.' — Alan Moore [on Low]
'Laced with pop culture, from Kesha to Fleetwood Mac... Chrissy Williams’ second collection, Low published by Bloodaxe Books is a spinning Ferris wheel of sardonic improvisation and deep exploration... Williams commits no sins. The relationship between poetry and improvisation is a worthy probe and executed with a light and beautiful heart. Williams plays with time well and entertains better than most sketch comedy because there is no fear in prodding pain into hope. No forced jokes. Zero boredom. Layers of insight. Refreshing, adept, luminous, Low by Chrissy Williams deserves an ovation and hopefully many encores.' - DM O'Connor, RHINO
'This is a playful, expansive poetics, with language that zings and delights...It takes great skill and vision to create poems that combine humour and pathos while highlighting the materiality and malleability of language...Like all great creative acts, the poems in Low often combine unlike elements to create something new.' - Marcus Slease, Tears in the Fence
Chrissy Williams is an award-winning poet, editor and comic book writer based in the UK. Her work has been featured on BBC radio and television, and her first book-length collection Bear (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) was one of the Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year.
The author of numerous pamphlets, her work has been commended by the Forward Prizes, shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards, and published in many magazines and anthologies including Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Prototype and Salt's Best British Poetry series.
Her debut comic Golden Rage (Image Comics) is a dystopian feminist satire which Booklist described as 'as heartbreaking as it is entertaining'. She also writes and teaches poetry comics. Her poetry comics collaboration with Tom Humberstone, Introduction to Charts, won the Selkie Award for Best Narrative Comic. She and Tom co-edited Over the Line: An Introduction to Poetry comics (Sidekick Books) about which Alan Moore said: 'I really can’t recommend this venture highly enough.' She has also edited comics including the New York Times bestselling The Wicked + The Divine (Image Comics).
She is editor of the online poetry journal PERVERSE, whose poems have been shortlisted in the Forward Prizes for Best Single Poem several times. She teaches for the Poetry School. She previously worked both at the National Poetry Library in London and as Director of the Poetry Book Fair, and is now based in the south west of England. Her second book-length collection, Low, was published by Bloodaxe in 2021, and is an exploration of identity in the face of miscarriage and loss.
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