SCENES FROM LIFE ON EARTH

Tackling the loss of the poet's mother - as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death and marriage - this poignant collection explores how we grieve and remember those we love.

About the author

Kathryn Simmonds' first book of poetry Sunday at the Skin Launderette won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2008. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Love and Fallout, her first novel, was a finalist in the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize before it was published. In 2013-14 she was the first poet-in-residence at the Charles Causley Trust in Launceston, Cornwall.

Summary

Tackling the loss of the poet's mother - as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death and marriage - this poignant collection explores how we grieve and remember those we love.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Simmonds
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781784632779
• ISBN: 978-1-78463-277-9
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 134 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 90 g
• Illustrations: Not illustrated
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies