Description
*Karen's first book, An Aviary of Small Birds, a Guardian Book of the Year, a PBS Recommendation, was shortlisted for Forward Prize 2015 Best First Collection*Selected for the European poetry initiative Versopolis and US Breaking Ground BME writer tour*Poet in Residence at Greenwich Maritime Museum, Karen gave voice to migrants and refugees, then performed at international festivals in Sweden, the Caribbean and Mexico
About the Author
Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father. She is the recipient of the Kate Betts Memorial Prize and an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship from Royal Holloway, where she is a PhD candidate. She is the editor of three literary anthologies, most recently Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe, 2014). Her poetry has been published in Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation among others.
Reviews
'McCarthy Woolf has a powerful command of form and rhythm.' - Poetry Review; 'I loved Karen McCarthy Woolf's technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak.' - The Observer New Review; `Seasonal Disturbances might be strange, but it's also a brilliant selection of poems [...] It's a collection that teaches you something about human beings as well as yourself.' - The Poetry School
Awards
Winner of The Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry, Second Place 2020.
Book Information
ISBN 9781784103361
Author Karen McCarthy Woolf
Format Paperback
Page Count 84
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 8mm