Poetry @ The Print
Room continues on Thursday 10 October,
7.30pm, with acclaimed poets Jean Sprackland, Christopher Reid and Helen
Mort. This will be our third evening in
our series of Poetry events.
In the upcoming weeks
we will be explaining a little more about what you can expect from each poet,
this week:
In 2007 Sprackland won
the Costa Poetry Award, with her first collection, Tilt, in which she looks back at endings and beginnings: the end of
a life, old homes lived in and left and new homes discovered. The poems speak of the paralysis and
bewilderment of knowing something is over, and of the strangely significant,
almost votive nature of the things that are left behind.
Her new collection, Sleeping Keys is a book of transitions –
domestic and emotional – and it explores how the experience of change is
painful, disorientating, even catastrophic, but also profoundly necessary and
revelatory. Change brings with it the
hope that love can be recovered out of the ruins; change, in fact, is a
creative, healing force that shows us we have been living amoung ruins – that even
in the face of grief and loss there are ‘spectral futures / we must stride the
ditch to reach’.
Full of exact, vivid,
clear-eyed observations of a world of failure and flux, Sleeping Keys also illuminates a future world beyond. For every object left emptied of significance,
bereft, Jean Sprackland shows us another that’s charged and radiant with
possibility – the possibility of miracles.
‘When Sprackland opens her poems up…both to metaphorical possibility and responsibility, her lyric energies are uncompromised and resolutely shine’ - Guardian
‘When Sprackland opens her poems up…both to metaphorical possibility and responsibility, her lyric energies are uncompromised and resolutely shine’ - Guardian
As a little taster
check out this video of Spackland talking about her award winning first
collection, Tilt:
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