Description
This collection follows Bowl from Worple and The Sound of Rain from Garlic Press. It explores the dynamics of presence and absence. There is lament but also affection and delight.
About the Author
Elizabeth Cook's work includes fiction, poetry, and libretti. Her novel, Lux (Scribe), connects the Biblical story of David and Bathsheba with the 16th century poet,Thomas Wyatt. She is the author of the fiction, Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA), the poetry collection, Bowl (Worple), and a pamphlet, The Sound of the Rain (The Garlic Press). She has created the libretti for Francis Grier's oratorios, The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, and Before all Worlds, the latter a Nativity setting. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and was St Edmundsbury Cathedral's first Writer in Residence. She is currently a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. She grew up in Dorset and now lives in East London.
Reviews
Necessary, sustaining poems that brim with luminous insights and remind us time and time again that there is another world and it is in this one. Michael Laskey Such richness and movement, honesty, humour,;imagination, connectedness. Paul Mills;Elizabeth Cook can take an image (fruitfully) further than I would have thought possible. Helena Nelson
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208470
Author Elizabeth Cook
Format Paperback
Page Count 84
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press
About the Author
Elizabeth Cook's work includes fiction, poetry, and libretti. Her novel, Lux (Scribe), connects the Biblical story of David and Bathsheba with the 16th century poet,Thomas Wyatt. She is the author of the fiction, Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA), the poetry collection, Bowl (Worple), and a pamphlet, The Sound of the Rain (The Garlic Press). She has created the libretti for Francis Grier's oratorios, The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, and Before all Worlds, the latter a Nativity setting. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and was St Edmundsbury Cathedral's first Writer in Residence. She is currently a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. She grew up in Dorset and now lives in East London.
Reviews
Necessary, sustaining poems that brim with luminous insights and remind us time and time again that there is another world and it is in this one. Michael Laskey Such richness and movement, honesty, humour,;imagination, connectedness. Paul Mills;Elizabeth Cook can take an image (fruitfully) further than I would have thought possible. Helena Nelson
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208470
Author Elizabeth Cook
Format Paperback
Page Count 84
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press
