Making the Wedding Dress (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2026
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Paperback. Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks what can be fixed, what does it mean to make a daughters wedding dress. The collection fans out to explore bullying, money, trade, rats and sinkholes. A third section questions how humans relate to other species, speculates on a worm's opinion of people, the communal life of starlings. The book ends on ideas of exits and entrances, home, absences within a family and the fragility of care.Making the Wedding Dress makes many unexpected connections, moving from sauna to plum tree, to a luxury yacht cruising off Brighton beach. It asks what crows think of humans, it urges its readers to question what is normal.Jackie Wills six previous collections have taken on big issues but her poems are always grounded. Her poems have been described as warm and witty, satirical, feminist and unputdownable. She starts with the mundane, then exaggerates a list of the many words used to describe a woman, a sequence of short, impressionist poems on the surreality of menopause.Liz Lochhead described her 1995 debut, Powder Tower (Arc 1995), as full of fabulous and exact fictions about ordinary family life. Writer Robert Macfarlane described her second book Party (Leviathan 2000) as a very fine collection indeed. Jackie Wills' poems are witty, stylish and taboo busting. They move from a super yacht to allotment, sewing as act of devotion, ask if age brings truth or destruction. Imagine Cruella de Ville on the train to Brighton, ancient philosophers on the beach. Enter today's surreal world fearless, Wills urges. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Making the Wedding Dress (Paperback)
- Author
- Jackie Wills
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1784633844
- ISBN 13
- 9781784633844
Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.
She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks what can be fixed, what does it mean to make a daughter’s wedding dress. The collection fans out to explore bullying, money, trade, rats and sinkholes. A third section questions how humans relate to other species, speculates on a worm's opinion of people, the communal life of starlings. The book ends on ideas of exits and entrances, home, absences within a family and the fragility of care.
Making the Wedding Dress makes many unexpected connections, moving from sauna to plum tree, to a luxury yacht cruising off Brighton beach. It asks what crows think of humans, it urges its readers to question what is normal.
Jackie Wills’ six previous collections have taken on big issues but her poems are always grounded. Her poems have been described as warm and witty, satirical, feminist and unputdownable. She starts with the mundane, then exaggerates – a list of the many words used to describe a woman, a sequence of short, impressionist poems on the surreality of menopause.
Liz Lochhead described her 1995 debut, Powder Tower (Arc 1995), as “full of fabulous and exact fictions about ordinary family life”. Writer Robert Macfarlane described her second book Party (Leviathan 2000) as “a very fine collection indeed”.
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About the Author
The first of Jackie Wills’ six collections of poetry was shortlisted for the 1995 TS Eliot award. Former journalist and tutor, her recent publications are On Poetry: Reading, Writing and Working with Poems (Smith Doorstop, 2023) and A Friable Earth (Arc 2019). In 2023 she won a Cholmondely Award. Judge Moniza Alvi wrote: “Jackie Wills is a very natural, genuine poet of sensitivity, boldness and flair. She has been writing explorative, compassionate and often mesmerising poetry for many years.”
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