Name: Windfalls
ISBN: 9781912681754

Windfalls

Susie Wild

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In Windfalls, Wild writes of fruit blown down by the wind, of unexpected and unearned gains which renew the beauty and joy of life. Here flying trampolines disrupt trains, apples carpet gardens, the Balloon Girl rises, and the red moon sinks. In a city of ups and downs, the Handkerchief Tree rare-blooms, fists and knickers are flung, crestfallen angels consider dates, carnivores go hungry, wedding vows are made, and a pandemic honeymoon is cancelled. These are also stories of heroines who fall or jump from pedestals, taking risks in a world that is often dangerous for women, but refusing to settle for the conventional. Wild continues to bring us her refreshingly slant world view, whether unpicking the domestic, the political, or the environmental.

Book Details

Publisher: Parthian
Publish Date: Nov 5th, 2021
Pages: 80
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
EAN: 9781912681754
Categories: • Women Authors

About the Author

Susie Wild is author of the poetry collection Better Houses, the short story collection The Art of Contraception, listed for the Edge Hill Prize, and the novella Arrivals. Her work has recently featured in Carol Ann Duffy's pandemic project Write Where We Are Now, The Atlanta Review, Ink, Sweat & Tears, and Poetry Wales. She placed second in the Welshpool Poetry Festival Competition 2020, was highly commended in the Prole Laureate Prize 2020, was shortlisted for an Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month 2020, and longlisted in the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2018.

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Praise for this book

'Susie Wild writes with poise and precision about the places we inhabit, casting a benevolent spell over her reader.' --Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

'These poems are spells whose words bewitch the ordinary and transform the objects and routines of our human world with their word-magic.' --Gillian Clarke

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