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In the Quaker Hotel

  • ISBN-13: 9781800171824
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Helen Tookey
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 12 in stock
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  • Local release date: 28/09/2022
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 155g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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 In the title poem, the speaker sits at the window of a small hotel room. The room is a holding zone, a temporary stopping-place between memory and possibility. In the Quaker Hotel is full of questions about the world. Rooted in nature, the poems are fearful for it. They move out through identifiable landscapes (Merseyside, north Wales, Nova Scotia, southern France) to off-kilter, tilted places beyond our immediate reality. We are temporary guests in these places and in our own lives. Who will come after us, how will they see things: who will tend the bees / in the communal garden? Helen Tookey experiments with form and theme, as in her earlier books Missel-Child (Carcanet, 2014, shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize) and City of Departures (Carcanet, 2019, shortlisted for the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection).

Helen Tookey was born near Leicester in 1969 and now lives in Liverpool. She studied philosophy at university and subsequently worked in publishing. She currently teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published two previous poetry collections with Carcanet Press, Missel-Child (2014, shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize, 2015) and City of Departures (2019, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, 2019).

* Previous book City of Departures shortlisted for the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection. * This volume explores the present moment as a threshold between remembered past and uncertain future (under threat from ecological breakdown). * The book journeys through the landscapes of Merseyside, north Wales, and southern France. * Contains a sequence drawing on the poet’s residency at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Nova Scotia in 2019, journeying through a version of Nova Scotia and into an uncertain near-future. * Includes a set of poems responding to the paintings and drawings made by Vincent van Gogh during his stay at the St-Paul asylum near St-Rémy in southern France. * She currently teaches Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University.

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