Author: SPRACKLAND, JEAN
Title: Sleeping Keys
Description: Jonathan Cape, 2013.. 52 p. SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperb. , wrrpprs with double flaps. UNREAD NEW ) ¶ In her first collection since the Costa-winning Tilt, Jean Sprackland looks back at endings and beginnings: the end of a life, or of a marriage; old homes lived in and left, new homes discovered. There are poems that speak of the paralysis and bewilderment of knowing something is over, and of the strangely significant, almost votive nature of the things that are left behind: the biscuit tin ‘of old keys, decommissioned and sleeping’, the empty room fading ‘to a tinnitus of dust and dead wasps’.

Keywords: Literature poetry


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