SHAG - Tecno-Libro

These are poems with strong, straight-talking narratives punctuated by keenly observed birds amidst the bleak land and seascapes of northern Britain. This early collection of poems by Arts Council (UK) award-winning writer Sue Vickerman is about relationships that are illustrated, if not shaped and directed by, that sometimes harsh world that is &lsquo.nature&rsquo.. Her poems have been described as &ldquo.windows onto worlds where various degrees of unsatisfactoriness are revealed&hellip. The essential mode is &lsquo.watching&rsquo. and Sue Vickerman&rsquo.s gaze is uncompromising, direct and wide-ranging. her language dense and gritty, at home on the edge of things&rdquo. Linda France (editor, &lsquo.Sixty Women Poets&rsquo., Bloodaxe Books). &ldquo.Salty, stony, fierce, loving, and sometimes sharp&hellip. Poems that will ruffle your feathers, full of acute glimpses of the underneath of things&rdquo. Julia Darling. &ldquo.Edgy, elemental, tender, they help me to understand more about what