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- Book Synopsis
- Shortlisted for Costa Poetry Award 2020 Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020 Shortlisted for John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2021Poetry Book of the Month - The Telegraph May 2020 Included in Books of the Year 2020 - The TLS November 2020 Juana of Castile (commonly referred to as Juana la Loca - Joanna the Mad) was a sixteenth-century Queen of Spain, daughter of the instigators of the Inquisition. Conspired against, betrayed, imprisoned and usurped by her father, husband and son in turn, she lived much of her life confined at Tordesillas, and left almost nothing by way of a written record. The poems in Citadel are written by a composite 'I' - part Reformation-era monarch, part twenty-first century poet - brought together by a rupture in time as the result of ambiguous, traumatic events in the lives of two women separated by almost five hundred years. Across the distance between central Spain and the northwest coast of England these powerful, unsettling poems echo and double back, threading together the remembered places of childhood, the touchstones of pain, and the dreamscapes of an anxious, interior world. Symbolic objects - the cord, the telephone, eggs, a flashing blue light - make obsessive return, communication becoming increasingly difficult as the storm moves in over the sea. Citadel is a daring and luminous debut.
- About The Author
- Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator from Merseyside. She is the editor for independent press Offord Road Books, poetry editor for Poetry London, and an editor for Unbound. Two pamphlets - Glass As Broken Glass (Rack Press, 2017) and Milk Tooth (Rough Trade Books, 2018) were followed by the debut collection Citadel (Pavilion Poetry, 2020), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
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- ISBN
- 9781789621020
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Pavilion Poetry, (27 April 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 64
- Weight
- 32 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 189 x 118 x 5 mm
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