Overview
The physical and the metaphysical meet, and questions of new motherhood are set against those of faith and the larger conundrum of how to live in this newest collection of poetry from Kathryn Simmonds. As in her debut collection, an appealing, deceptively simplistic voice prevails in these verses, though subtle shifts of language and perspective imply darker themes and worlds unseen. The tone is often simultaneously satirical and elegiac and the volume abounds with sudden moments of strange illumination: a lime tree strikes up a conversation; a life coach finds an old passport; an infant teeters on the brink of speech.Reviews
"'Quirky, witty, moving, Kathryn Simmonds' gift is to find joy and beauty in unexpected places. She invests the everyday world with an extraordinary luminosity.” —Jackie Kay, author, Reality, Reality and Red Dust RoadAuthor Biography
Kathryn Simmonds is a freelance writer and editor and a teacher. Her first collection of poetry, Sunday at the Skin Launderette, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was short-listed for the Costa Poetry Award and long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award.
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