wake Allnutt GillianPaperback
wake Allnutt GillianPaperback When Gillian Allnutt was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Carol Ann Duffy wrote that her work 'has always been in conversation with the natural world and the…
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wake Allnutt GillianPaperback
When Gillian Allnutt was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Carol Ann Duffy wrote that her work 'has always been in conversation with the natural world and the spiritual life'. As her title signals, these are poems about looking back, keeping watch over the dying and death of an old world and the ways of being human in that world; but also forward, waiting for the new world and being ready to awaken to it when it comes. Her latest collection, wake, shows the two beginning to meld into one: to speak for, even as, one another.
No one here is fully at home in the world. There are, as always in her work, many displaced people. These are turbulent times - individually and collectively - and the poems here reflect that.
And yet the poems are more 'among' than 'about' people: speaking out of the horde, and the hoard, of humanity as a