Product Description

The array of characters in this book of lyric poems personify twenty-first century language, found on adverts, shopfronts, train tickets. "Stretch of Closures" writes down an urban landscape in an alphabet made readable by its citizens. If it is the dead metaphors that define everyday lives, Claire Crowther shakes them up to show not just history but signposts to the future. This is Claire Crowther's first collection.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #843025 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 104 pages

Poetry Review, Summer, 2007
'Claire Crowther is a poet whose confident, highly sensuous
explorations of language and gender deserve to be read and recognised.'

The North, 40, Summer 2007
'Reading this collection is like coming out into sunlight after
spending too long indoors; the poems have the capacity to astonish.'

Magma 38, Summer 2007
'This Shearsman collection...is stunning....This is a superb writer in
whose poems nothing happens by chance. It's a book to live with.'

Customer Reviews

Contemporary poetry at its best
I have been blown away by Claire Crowther's Stretch of Closures and had to read it several times before I could put it down. I find a lot of contemporary poetry very middle-of-the-road and uninspiring so this book was both refreshing and eye opening. The author manages to be experimental and yet very readable and easy to understand. I found the stories in her poems seem to light up the page, allowing the reader to be enveloped in a wave of mesmerising words.

I was given this book as a gift and have been so inspired by it I had to come on to look at the author's other work. I highly recommend this book.