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The Conversation, EPUB eBook

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In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present, and character and writer.

Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even in grief, closeness in times of isolation and lockdown, and the longing to bridge gaps and find cures.

Miracles are found in the everyday, in a child's sleep or a lit-up house.

Textiles transform into remembrancers, landscape into emotion.

A contemporary Daedalus views his life from a hang-glider.

A scrap of handwriting, cafe talk, an exploding car, an earthquake, the naming of fields or a line of walkers ignite conversations about place, time and the tender paradoxes of mortality.

Stephanie Norgate's first collection Hidden River (2008) was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was followed by The Blue Den (2012).

The Conversation is her third collection. Her poetry has been praised for the 'depth of its lyricism' (Jackie Wills, Warwick Review), and for being 'energetic and generous, and displaying a 'feeling for place, for the roots of things' and for being 'searching, memorable and disconcerting ...

She has the ear for the music of a line and the shape and strength of an image.' (R.V.

Bailey, Artemis).

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