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Product Identifiers

PublisherCarcanet Press, The Limited

ISBN-101800170246

ISBN-139781800170247

eBay Product ID (ePID)28050414275

Product Key Features

Book TitleFleet

Number of Pages80 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicWomen Authors, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

GenrePoetry

AuthorJudith Willson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight3.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews'Judith Willson's poetry takes us, in a dazzling flow of images, to lives which have the solidity of Central European fairytale with all the frightening reality of history behind them. It is richly inventive in form and precise in tone.' - Elaine Feinstein, on Crossing the Mirror Line (2017)

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal821.92

SynopsisIn 1878, in London, a woman served a prison sentence for deserting two of her children, a charge she denied. Almost nothing else is known of her life or that of her husband, a dealer in 'foreign birds and curiosities', who was himself a migrant. The two children vanished from the record. This is where Fleet begins, with elusive histories and lost voices. The title suggests imperial power, conquest, traffic in commodities (which in the nineteenth century included vast numbers of exotic birds). It is shadowed by other meanings: the fleeting glimpse and swift flight; floating memories, enigmatic and insistent. Judith Willson's second book of poems was written during years when migration and displacement have become central facts of the human condition. The collection works outwards from found text - historical documents, archive materials - into other places and times. In the silences of such records, their erasures and omissions, are stories that haunt our present., In 1878, in London, a woman served a prison sentence for deserting two of her children, a charge she denied. Almost nothing else is known of her life or that of her husband, a dealer in 'foreign birds and curiosities,' who was himself a migrant. The two children vanished from the record. This is where Fleet begins, with elusive histories and lost voices. The title suggests imperial power, conquest, traffic in commodities (which in the nineteenth century included vast numbers of exotic birds). It is shadowed by other meanings: the fleeting glimpse and swift flight; floating memories, enigmatic and insistent. Judith Willson's second book of poems was written during years when migration and displacement have become central facts of the human condition. The collection works outwards from found text--historical documents, archive materials--into other places and times. In the silences of such records, their erasures and omissions are stories that haunt our present., This second collection, following her 2017 debut Crossing the Mirror Line, explores absences, migrations and elusive histories., In 1878, in London, a woman served a prison sentence for deserting two of her children, a charge she denied. Almost nothing else is known of her life or that of her husband, a dealer in 'foreign birds and curiosities, ' who was himself a migrant. The two children vanished from the record. This is where Fleet begins, with elusive histories and lost voices. The title suggests imperial power, conquest, traffic in commodities (which in the nineteenth century included vast numbers of exotic birds). It is shadowed by other meanings: the fleeting glimpse and swift flight; floating memories, enigmatic and insistent. Judith Willson's second book of poems was written during years when migration and displacement have become central facts of the human condition. The collection works outwards from found text--historical documents, archive materials--into other places and times. In the silences of such records, their erasures and omissions are stories that haunt our present.

LC Classification NumberPR6123