The gorgeous, crystalline debut collection from rising star Liz
Berry.
In "Black Country," Liz Berry takes us home: to Wrens Nest, Gosty
Hill, Bilston; to the summer where she first learned to talk; to
the woods where the secrets are hidden. A parade of riotous
characters abound: the Bone Orchard Wench, the Lady Rotcatcher,
Carmella 'Ower Lady of the Hairdresser'.
But her poems also transport us into other, different worlds of
the poet's imagination: the memories and magic of childhood to the
dawning of adulthood and the dark, sweet mysteries of love and
sexuality. Ablaze with energy and colour, and alive with a
thrilling command of language, Liz Berry's poems are
transformative, almost magical: her characters are protean, her eye
unusual; all rooted in the sights and sounds of her native Black
Country: 'vowels ferrous as nails, consonants you could lick the
coal from.'
This is a distinctive, assured, and unforgettable debut full of
fierce poems of wonder and incandescent joy. It marks the arrival
of a luminous talent in British poetry.
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