Brushed

by Natalie Scott

BRUSHED is about painting new perspectives, giving voices to those we can’t hear and adding colour to the aspects of life which often seem black and white. The poems reflect on Scott's interest in fine art, particularly the subjects of paintings who are eager to tell their stories. Other poems draw on her observations of relationships, loss, isolation and nature, considering the poignancy and humour of the seemingly simple moments in life.

"[...] a sequence of the poems in here engage directly with a cross section of paintings and sculpture in a delightful and playful tone. There are shadows too in the poems of memory and experience but these are understated and alluded to, shown rather than confessed. Many of the poems are vignettes of character and scene.These are expressed in elegant cadences of free verse."
- Pauline Plummer

"a memorable and persuasive debut" - Anna Woodford

‘Victorine’ was awarded Finalist for the Aesthetica Creative Works Anthology 2009.

32 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2010

About the author

Natalie Scott is an internationally published poet from the North East of England. Her latest collection Rare Birds - Voices of Holloway Prison (Valley Press, 2020) was an Award-Winning Finalist in the Poetry category of the 2020 International Book Awards. Rare Birds features ‘Colonel Barker’, longlisted for the Live Canon Poetry Competition 2018, and ‘Katie Gliddon’, Highly Commended in the Yaffle Poetry Prize 2019. Her poems were set to music by a team of award-winning British composers and performed by a West End cast at Soho Theatre, supported by the Arts Council of England. Natalie also has collections by Indigo Dreams, Bradshaw Books and Mudfog, as well as appearances in over thirty national and international literary journals. She shares her time between freelance work and her role as Lecturer in Creative Writing at Arts University Bournemouth.