Description
According to the seventeenth-century herbarium The Garden of Eden, a 'missel-child' is a mysterious being found beneath a mistletoe-covered tree - a changeling, perhaps, 'whereof many strange things are conceived'. Helen Tookey's first full collection of poems starts from the missel-child to explore archaeologies of identity, place and language. She is a formally inventive writer, using collage and syllabics, exploring elegy and myth. The poems in this book create a space in which language enables something to be said and also to be shown.
About the Author
Helen Tookey was born near Leicester in 1969. She studied philosophy and literature at university and has worked in academic publishing, as a university teacher, and as a freelance editor. Her short collection Telling the Fractures, a collaboration with photographer Alan Ward, was published by Axis Projects in 2008.
Awards
Short-listed for Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry 2015.
Book Information
ISBN 9781847772183
Author Helen Tookey
Format Paperback
Page Count 71
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
About the Author
Helen Tookey was born near Leicester in 1969. She studied philosophy and literature at university and has worked in academic publishing, as a university teacher, and as a freelance editor. Her short collection Telling the Fractures, a collaboration with photographer Alan Ward, was published by Axis Projects in 2008.
Awards
Short-listed for Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry 2015.
Book Information
ISBN 9781847772183
Author Helen Tookey
Format Paperback
Page Count 71
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
