|
FROM THE BOAT
Myra Connell
“Are you waiting for the dawn?” Dawn may help. But I am waiting for the water. For the pool to fill and
slowly
for the boat – the walnut-shell, the matchstick mast and paper sail – to rise, float on.”
These poems From the Boat come from a time of waiting, of mourning, and of finding small consolations. They are, many of them, small poems, the opposite of heroic. Bare, spare in mood, and exploring a sense of dislocation and disorientation, they look coldly at what is left when almost everything is pared away.
And yet they rejoice in moments of revelation – the golden flash of carp in a pool, a red jacket on a woman in a cafe; and the words, the language, the poems themselves, never feel doubtful or uncertain in their own power.
Myra Connell’s poetry is measured yet generous; experimental and adventurous; sharp, often angry, and yet tender.
Launched: February 2010
Price: £5.00
ISBN: 978-0-9560559-6-5
What the reviewers say about From the Boat:
"It’s like meeting your guide or mentor at the start of a strange quest (...) The energy of the poetry that follows is really remarkable"
- Kirsten Irving, Sphinx. Read the rest of this review here.
Back to Publications >
|
Read an extract from this pamphlet here.
Myra Connell’s first collection of poems, A Still Dark Kind of Work, was published by Heaventree Press in 2008. Her poems have appeared in various magazines, and her short stories in two collections from Tindal Street Press, Her Majesty and Are You She? She lives in Birmingham and has two grown-up sons. |
