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This Changes Things, Paperback / softback Book

This Changes Things Paperback / softback

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This changes things was Claire Askew's first full collection, coming after years of work in Scotland's flourishing poetry and spoken word scene.

Her poems focus on the lives and experiences of women - particularly the socially or economically marginalised - at pains both to empathise and to recognise the limits of this empathy.

They embody a need to acknowledge and challenge the poet's privileged position as documenter and outsider, a responsibility to the poem's political message and to that message's human subject.

This changes things draws much of its strength from this exploration of inbetweenness.

Claire Askew's purposeful deployment of objects, lighting effects and liminal spaces implicates her reader in the poem's argument, holds up a mirror and asks us to pay attention.

The book's romantic relationships, depictions of frustrated travel or social mobility, are bound up in its awareness of the systems of power that permit no true state of innocence.

Even the final poem, 'Hydra' - with its celebration of the body and its senses - cannot ultimately allow us off the hook.

This changes things was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award 2016, Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017 and Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017.

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