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The Kingdom

Jane Draycott

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The Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycott's distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in a way that opens the world afresh. Here are England's towns and countryside, roads and ports and sushi chains, yards and herbs, an airport and a columbarium, and poems that consider art in a time of plague by way of meditation on Titian, Apollinaire, and Derek Jarman.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Carcanet Press
  • Publish Date: Dec 8th, 2022
  • Pages: 64
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9781800172593
  • Categories: • Women Authors• European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Jane Draycott was born in London and is the author of eight collections of poetry and poetic translation, including No Theatre (Smith/Doorstop, Forward Prizes shortlist) and Prince Rupert's Drop (Forward Prize for Best Collection shortlist), Over (T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist), and The Occupant (PBS Recommendation), all from Carcanet Press. A 2004 Next Generation poet, her several awards include a Stephen Spender Prize for her Carcanet translation of the medieval dream-elegy Pearl. She teaches on postgraduate writing programmes at the universities of Oxford and Lancaster.

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'Even the briefest poems here offer richly textured, shimmering language.' Thank you @MayaCPopa for this fantastic review of The Kingdom by Jane Draycott, featured in @TheTLS ✨ https://t.co/pFp3uNuO9G

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'Draycott is rightly regarded as a poet of sensitivity and lyrical control. But these are not airy poems. Their mysteries are well served by the muscularity of her descriptions.' @MayaCPopa reviews Jane Draycott's The Kingdom in @TheTLS: https://t.co/7deWHvq9bE

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The Friday Poem is a digital poetry magazine posting original poems, plus features and reviews of interest to poets and readers of poetry.

Book reviews on The Frip — Charlotte Gann on 'The Hopeful Hat' by Carole Satyamurti, Karen Smith on 'Improvised Explosive Device' by Arji Manuelpillai, Isabelle Thompson on 'Tabula Rasa', and Emma Simon on 'The Kingdom' by Jane Draycott. https://t.co/mw5NqQ4GRu #TheFridayPoem https://t.co/taR7sTOYVh

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Praise for this book

'I should make clear from the outset that it's a collection I like very much... This is a collection that speaks to the reader's doubts, uncertainties, fears, death-thoughts; there is no single reading and that, for me, makes it stronger... It anticipates the future, as art should.' London Grip
'These poems, especially when read in order in the collection as a whole, are deeply unsettling; yet there is love in them, and hope. There is also great tenderness and an awareness of a beauty that can still be valued in the fragility of the moment and the world.' Kathleen Bell, The High Window
'Draycott is rightly regarded as a poet of sensitivity and lyrical control. But these are not airy poems. Their mysteries are well served by the muscularity of her descriptions. Even the briefest poems here offer richly textured, shimmering language.' Maya Popa, TLS
'These are approachable poems, expressed in lucid language, and studded with clear images. They are finely wrought, knitting form and sound patterns beautifully, but holding these formal properties lightly... The Kingdom is moving, intriguing. It's a place I know I will keep returning too, to lose an hour our two.' Emma Simon, The Friday Poem

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