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Britain's only Canal Poet Laureate, Jo Bell's poetry draws on archaeology, narrowboat life and broken hearts.
In this warm but ever so faintly cynical selection, she takes inspiration from historic landscapes and heartbreaks, writing of sex, death and friendship in settings from Cappadocia to the Peak District. Through an intriguing range of personae - a shipwright for 'The Shipwright's Love Song', thuggish ducks in 'Oiks' or a spurned partner in 'Advice' - Jo Bell explores the deep friendships which furnish our lives.
With one eye on the ancient past, one on the personal past and a glance at a bright future, this is a collection to make you laugh, reflect and remember.
In this warm but ever so faintly cynical selection, she takes inspiration from historic landscapes and heartbreaks, writing of sex, death and friendship in settings from Cappadocia to the Peak District. Through an intriguing range of personae - a shipwright for 'The Shipwright's Love Song', thuggish ducks in 'Oiks' or a spurned partner in 'Advice' - Jo Bell explores the deep friendships which furnish our lives.
With one eye on the ancient past, one on the personal past and a glance at a bright future, this is a collection to make you laugh, reflect and remember.
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49 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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October 25, 2014
This book is like Jo Bell herself: lively, opinionated, sensitive, warm. I recommend you hear her perform her poems if you can - it's well worth it.
Reading these poems will make you smile and sigh, maybe even laugh or cry. She has the ability to encapsulate an idea in a few words, perfectly suited to the subject. She talks of dolphins who 'gashed the world with brine', a 'shagpile parkland' and pink carnations 'in their long-lived splayed confetti splendour.'
Read Jo's poems and revel in the words. Highly recommended.
Reading these poems will make you smile and sigh, maybe even laugh or cry. She has the ability to encapsulate an idea in a few words, perfectly suited to the subject. She talks of dolphins who 'gashed the world with brine', a 'shagpile parkland' and pink carnations 'in their long-lived splayed confetti splendour.'
Read Jo's poems and revel in the words. Highly recommended.
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