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Tree
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- Book Synopsis
- 'one day I wake up and it's November / bare branches are faulty umbilical cords / failing to implant the sky'In Tree, Natalie Whittaker is writing about her personal experience of stillbirth and the mental illness that can follow such a traumatic event. It is a subject that is still rarely addressed in poetry, writing or conversation. That she is able to do so here, in eighteen intricate, carefully crafted poems, in a way that is engaging, communicative, distressing and yet also beautiful, is a testament to her abilities as a poet, her strong grasp on the power of language and the power of her imagination. With these powers, she brings a harrowing subject close up and enables the reader to truly feel, to see, to understand, to share. It is a brave and necessary work, wonderfully and heart-breakingly realised.
- About The Author
- Natalie Whittaker is a poet and secondary school teacher from South East London. Her debut pamphlet Shadow Dogs was published by ignition press in 2018. Natalie is one of the London Library's emerging writers for 2020 / 2021. Her poems have been widely published in UK magazines and anthologies; she was commended in the Verve poetry competition 2020, and won second place in the Kent and Sussex poetry competition 2020.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781912565511
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Verve Poetry Press, (11 March 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 28
- Weight
- 63 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 146 x 5 mm
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