Better Houses - Wild, Susie
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She tramps with humor, love, and loss across the UK, even the globe, seeking a place to call home. Better Houses charts the move from childhood to adult life with wit and wonder. In a state of constant displacement, the poems flit from tents and gypsy caravans to boarding school, to lodgings and house sitting. The collection offers a half-remembered, half-invented life of pub crawl dates and doors slamming, as the narrators fall in and out of love and a life packing and unpacking boxes. These poems hunt fossils and comets, escape fires and great white sharks, consider life on other planets, and prophesize white witches.…mehr

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She tramps with humor, love, and loss across the UK, even the globe, seeking a place to call home. Better Houses charts the move from childhood to adult life with wit and wonder. In a state of constant displacement, the poems flit from tents and gypsy caravans to boarding school, to lodgings and house sitting. The collection offers a half-remembered, half-invented life of pub crawl dates and doors slamming, as the narrators fall in and out of love and a life packing and unpacking boxes. These poems hunt fossils and comets, escape fires and great white sharks, consider life on other planets, and prophesize white witches.
Autorenporträt
Susie Wild is the author of the Edge Hill Prize long-listed story collection The Art of Contraception and the ebook novella Arrivals (Parthian 2010, 2011). She has performed her poetry in dives and dance halls since 2006 including Green Man, The Laugharne Weekend, The Dylan Weekend, Pili Pala, Dinefwr, Birmingham Literature Festival, Glastonbury, Hay Festival and Hay Poetry Jamboree.