Description
"Powerful ...full of dark nostalgia."--Nathan Englander The Lifeboat All night in his lifeboat my father sang to keep the voices of the other men who cried in the wreckage from reaching him, he sang what he knew of the requiem, of the hit parade and the bits of hymns, he sang until he would never sing again, scalding his raw throat with sea-water until his ribs heaved, until the salt wept from his eyes on dry land, flecked at his lips in his squalling rages, streaked the sheets in his night sweats as night after night the reassembled ship scattered its parts on the shore of his bed, and the lifeboat eased him out again to drown each night among singing men. Inspired by a shipwreck endured by her father during the Second World War, and by his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and eventual suicide, Inheritance is a powerful poetic debut by the winner of the 2013 Boston Review Fiction Contest and The Malahat Review Far Horizons Award.
About the Author
Born in Montreal, Kerry-Lee Powell has lived in Australia, Antigua, and The United Kingdom, where she studied Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cardiff University and directed a literature promotion agency. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the United Kingdom and North America, including The Spectator, The Boston Review, and The Virago Writing Women series. In 2013, she won The Boston Review fiction contest, The Malahat Review's Far Horizons Award for short fiction, and the Alfred G. Bailey manuscript prize. A chapbook entitled "The Wreckage" has recently been published in England by Grey Suit Editions. A novel and short fiction collection are forthcoming from HarperCollins. Inheritance is her first book.
Reviews
"Powell's poems are full of lively vignettes in which realism strikes lyrical sparks off harshness."--Times Literary Supplement "If you are willing to submerge yourself, you may see and hear something both dangerous and divine."--Arc Poetry Magazine "[Powell's] description is beautiful and tender...the land of elegy overlaps the land of dream."--The Fiddlehead
Book Information
ISBN 9781927428795
Author Kerry-Lee Powell
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Biblioasis
Publisher Biblioasis
Weight(grams) 127g
About the Author
Born in Montreal, Kerry-Lee Powell has lived in Australia, Antigua, and The United Kingdom, where she studied Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cardiff University and directed a literature promotion agency. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the United Kingdom and North America, including The Spectator, The Boston Review, and The Virago Writing Women series. In 2013, she won The Boston Review fiction contest, The Malahat Review's Far Horizons Award for short fiction, and the Alfred G. Bailey manuscript prize. A chapbook entitled "The Wreckage" has recently been published in England by Grey Suit Editions. A novel and short fiction collection are forthcoming from HarperCollins. Inheritance is her first book.
Reviews
"Powell's poems are full of lively vignettes in which realism strikes lyrical sparks off harshness."--Times Literary Supplement "If you are willing to submerge yourself, you may see and hear something both dangerous and divine."--Arc Poetry Magazine "[Powell's] description is beautiful and tender...the land of elegy overlaps the land of dream."--The Fiddlehead
Book Information
ISBN 9781927428795
Author Kerry-Lee Powell
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Biblioasis
Publisher Biblioasis
Weight(grams) 127g
