Red Gloves

Author : Rebecca Watts

Paperback

Published : Thursday 25 June 2020

ISBN : 9781784109554

Price : €13.24

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Red Gloves

by Rebecca Watts

Paperback

25 Jun 2020

POETRY
>> Women Authors

€13.24

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An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human and the non-human.

In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Met Office Advises Caution, Rebecca Watts observes and tests the limits of humanity's engagement with the non-human. By turns lyrical and narrative, the poems examine familiar subjects - environmental crisis, hawks, hospitals, the sea, barbecues, flowers, Emily Dickinson - only to find their subjects staring, sometimes fighting, back. Nature and nurture, equally red in tooth and claw, power a book-long sparring match between the overthinking poet and the ever-thoughtless universe, between the craft's isolation and the world's irrepressible variety. Gloves on and gloves off, the poet's hands destroy and build, gather and scatter, caress and strike.

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