Claire Booker

A Pocketful of Chalk (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The South Downs lie at the heart of this collection - the sunsets and huge skies, cliffs and fossils, fishing vessels and windmills, people and sheep. Past, present and future collide within geological and emotional landscapes. Life erupts magically out of plum trees. Love is as friable as chalk, and as deeply underpinned. A lost father is redeemed through the gift of a chocolate rabbit, a loved one returns in the shape of a trombone. Mothers, both human and animal, prove their strength. A Pocketful of Chalk bursts with myth and metaphor, energy and originality. The giant of Wilmington leaves his hillside in an apocalyptic vision of global warming. Herons and Ospreys take flight, and a boy releases monsters from the sea shore. A cow really does jump over the moon. Claire Booker offers moving and memorable poetry from an iconic corner of England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arachne Press
• Seitenzahl: 54
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913665708
• Artikelnr.: 70467642

Autorenporträt

After life in London as a journalist, herbalist and hypnotherapist, Claire Booker has up-sticks and now lives in Rottingdean, between the South Downs and the English Channel. Sky and sea often feature in her poetry. She is currently working on a pamphlet inspired by Brighton's fishing and farming heritage. Her poetry has appeared on Guernsey buses, in Ambit, Magma, Poetry News, North, The Rialto, The Spectator and Stand, among others. Her debut pamphlet Later There Will Be Postcards is out with Green Bottle Press and her latest pamphlet, The Bone That Sang, is published by Indigo Dreams. She blogs at bookerplays.co.uk. Arachne has published several of Claire's poems in Solstice Shorts anthologies, including Tymes goe by Turnes, and Time and Tide. Her poems Mr McGregor's Seedlings and Profile Series 823/1 are published in our 2021 Solstice Shorts anthology, Words From the Brink.