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Informationen zum Autor Helen Tookey was born near Leicester in 1969. She is now based in Liverpool, where she teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. She studied philosophy and English literature at university, and has published critical work about writers including Anaïs Nin and Malcolm Lowry. Her debut collection Missel-Child (Carcanet, 2014) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize; her second collection City of Departures (Carcanet, 2019) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Klappentext A journey through memory and landscape in contemporary verse. In the title poem, the speaker sits at the window of a small hotel room, a temporary space between memory and possibility. Helen Tookey's In the Quaker Hotel explores questions about the world, rooted in nature and fearful for it. These poems move through identifiable landscapes--Merseyside, north Wales, Nova Scotia, southern France--to tilted places beyond our immediate reality. As temporary guests in these places and in our own lives, we contemplate who will come after us and how they will see things. Tookey experiments with form and theme, inviting readers to consider: The relationship between memory and placeThe impact of loss on identityNew perspectives on familiar landscapes Perfect for readers of contemporary poetry and nature writing. Zusammenfassung This new collection from Helen Tookey is a book of questionings, exploring the present moment as a threshold between remembered past and uncertain future.
