Pelt

✍ Scribed by Jackson, Sarah;

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 39 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; I; Vanishing Twin; The Red Telephone; Ten O'Clock Horses; Two Mothers; What Daddy Built; Into the Horse; Crabbing; Night Fishing; Old Fatty Knees ; Wingspan; Like a Smile; Leftovers; Touch Papers; Revolution; II; Friday 12.03; The Instant of My Death; Momos and Tea; Sacred Cow; Zooid; Monte Alcudina; Cow Uprising; Light Over Ratcliffe; Howling; Night Parliament; Doubles; III; Carrying My Bones; Silent Running; Traces; Beachcombing; The Way Through Walls; November; Visitor; Clam; Footing; IV.;Sarah Jackson explores the edges of writing in this uncanny book of touch. Tender, haunting, and yet beautifully poised, the poems in Pelt get right under your skin. The collection takes you on an unsettling journey between infancy and adulthood. Slipping from birds to blindness, from hides to hiding, Pelt uncovers the unfamiliar in the everyday. Pelt is written in the dark. It asks to be read through your fingertips. Striking and elegant, subtle and yet full of desire, this is a brilliant debut.'Sarah Jackson's poems are dark, strange stories, immaculately crafted. Surprising, dextrous, somet.