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Making the Wedding Dress
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Wydawca: Salt Publishing
Data wydania: 14.06.2026
Seria: Salt Modern Poets
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
EAN: 9781784633844
Opis
Opis
Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.
She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks what can be fixed, what does it mean to make a daughter's wedding dress. The collection fans out to explore bullying, money, trade, rats and sinkholes. A third section questions how humans relate to other species, speculates on a worm's opinion of people, the communal life of starlings. The book ends on ideas of exits and entrances, home, absences within a family and the fragility of care.
Making the Wedding Dress makes many unexpected connections, moving from sauna to plum tree, to a luxury yacht cruising off Brighton beach. It asks what crows think of humans, it urges its readers to question what is normal.
Jackie Wills' six previous collections have taken on big issues but her poems are always grounded. Her poems have been described as warm and witty, satirical, feminist and unputdownable. She starts with the mundane, then exaggerates – a list of the many words used to describe a woman, a sequence of short, impressionist poems on the surreality of menopause.
Liz Lochhead described her 1995 debut, Powder Tower (Arc 1995), as 'full of fabulous and exact fictions about ordinary family life'. Writer Robert Macfarlane described her second book Party (Leviathan 2000) as 'a very fine collection indeed'.
'Making the Wedding Dress is a collection that holds 'in tension' Jackie Wills's many interests and concerns. From the disturbing intimacy of needlework to the discoveries of aging and the consolations and concerns of the natural world, here are poems that say what needs to be said. Terrifically readable, full of thought and reflection, this is a book born of clear-eyed observation and beautifully shaped language.' -Jonathan Davidson
'The poems in Making the Wedding Dress are sewn with a lyrical needle connecting family and community to womanhood and ageing to nature and sinkholes to commitments, personal and political. Their compelling voice enacts a restless energy, in form and authoritative approach. Jackie Wills's keen eye notices 'the purest yellow opening in the sun like full skirts.' One poem ends 'look, look, look, look!' and Wills obeys her own music in this rich, fierce, searching collection.' -Robert Hamberger
'In Making the Wedding Dress, Jackie Wills shows us what it means to care for others, the planet and ourselves. There is a beautiful capability in Wills' poems to take us deep inside a richness of worlds – familial, natural, corporeal – where we can meditate the tenuousness and meaning that is found within them.' -Rebecca Goss
'There is such implicit skill in this collection that the reader could begin to believe it is effortless – that all poets can do this, that of course this is how it's meant to be. We start to feel entitled – all poetry must be this right, this fitting, this real. It's not.' -Sonya Smith
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
Salt Publishing Ltd
christopher@saltpublishing.com
+44(0)7545123738
She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks what can be fixed, what does it mean to make a daughter's wedding dress. The collection fans out to explore bullying, money, trade, rats and sinkholes. A third section questions how humans relate to other species, speculates on a worm's opinion of people, the communal life of starlings. The book ends on ideas of exits and entrances, home, absences within a family and the fragility of care.
Making the Wedding Dress makes many unexpected connections, moving from sauna to plum tree, to a luxury yacht cruising off Brighton beach. It asks what crows think of humans, it urges its readers to question what is normal.
Jackie Wills' six previous collections have taken on big issues but her poems are always grounded. Her poems have been described as warm and witty, satirical, feminist and unputdownable. She starts with the mundane, then exaggerates – a list of the many words used to describe a woman, a sequence of short, impressionist poems on the surreality of menopause.
Liz Lochhead described her 1995 debut, Powder Tower (Arc 1995), as 'full of fabulous and exact fictions about ordinary family life'. Writer Robert Macfarlane described her second book Party (Leviathan 2000) as 'a very fine collection indeed'.
'Making the Wedding Dress is a collection that holds 'in tension' Jackie Wills's many interests and concerns. From the disturbing intimacy of needlework to the discoveries of aging and the consolations and concerns of the natural world, here are poems that say what needs to be said. Terrifically readable, full of thought and reflection, this is a book born of clear-eyed observation and beautifully shaped language.' -Jonathan Davidson
'The poems in Making the Wedding Dress are sewn with a lyrical needle connecting family and community to womanhood and ageing to nature and sinkholes to commitments, personal and political. Their compelling voice enacts a restless energy, in form and authoritative approach. Jackie Wills's keen eye notices 'the purest yellow opening in the sun like full skirts.' One poem ends 'look, look, look, look!' and Wills obeys her own music in this rich, fierce, searching collection.' -Robert Hamberger
'In Making the Wedding Dress, Jackie Wills shows us what it means to care for others, the planet and ourselves. There is a beautiful capability in Wills' poems to take us deep inside a richness of worlds – familial, natural, corporeal – where we can meditate the tenuousness and meaning that is found within them.' -Rebecca Goss
'There is such implicit skill in this collection that the reader could begin to believe it is effortless – that all poets can do this, that of course this is how it's meant to be. We start to feel entitled – all poetry must be this right, this fitting, this real. It's not.' -Sonya Smith
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
Salt Publishing Ltd
christopher@saltpublishing.com
+44(0)7545123738
Szczegóły
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Data wydania: 14.06.2026
Liczba stron: 80
Wymiary: 12.9x19.8
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: Salt Publishing
Autor:
Seria: Salt Modern Poets
Tytuł:Making the Wedding Dress
EAN: 9781784633844
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