"Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces, Draycott creates a world of echoing voices and reflections. She evokes the mirrors and doorways, dreams and night-time journeys that transform the familiar: entrances into a different reality. "Over" explores liminal places where ocean meets land, land drops to ravine, lives intersect in piazzas. The poems cross thresholds between what is finished and what is 'not over yet', between present and past and, in an extract from her new translation of the medieval dream-vision Pearl, between a sunlit garden and the mysterious landscape of the world to come.

About the Author
Next Generation poet Jane Draycott was born in 1954 and has worked as a teacher in London, Tanzania and Strasbourg. She now lives in Oxfordshire and teaches at the Universities of Oxford and Lancaster. Nominated 3 times for the Forward Prize, she has published two collections with Carcanet: Prince Rupert's Drop (1999) and The Night Tree (2004), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. In 2002, she was winner of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. She is currently resident writer at Henley's River and Rowing Museum, and is also Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

Reviews
From reviews of Jane Draycott's The Night Tree Jane Draycott's quiet, meticulous poems inhabit the vague, evanescent world between waking and sleeping. Her vision is of an England half in dream, a Samuel Palmer twilight in which things begin to move into an unexpected focus. Times Literary Supplement I've waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline. In fact The Night Tree is the finest collection I've read for ages. Guardian


Awards
Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2009.



Book Information
ISBN 9781903039922
Author Jane Draycott
Format Paperback
Page Count 68
Imprint OxfordPoets
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd