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Walking the Animals is a sort of travel book: it brings together
inner and outer landscapes, the wet skies of the Pennines and the
drought of the South African lowveld; landscapes of loss,
landscapes of longing. Carola Luther tracks journeys between
disparate worlds, between north and south, earth and air, fantasy
and fact, the future, the present. Her poems explore dislocation
and search, and the importance of relationship in establishing a
sense of place. In her first collection, Carola Luther makes a new
kind of space in poetry, both impassioned and level-headed.
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Carola
Luther's new book On the Way to Jerusalem Farm explores the
complexities of living in a damaged world. How, it asks, does such
a world live in us, and we in it? At the centre of the collection
are three sequences, 'Letters to Rasool', 'Birthday at Emily Court'
and 'The Escape'. On the Way to Jerusalem Farm moves through the
world, seeking and finding not answers, but sometimes, a means of
continuing. The speaker in 'Letters to Rasool' travels onward
through scarred and depleted landscapes, and searches for a lost
beloved. The ageing residents of Emily Court celebrate a birthday
and dance. Spring of a kind still comes. And in 'The Escape' there
are colours to be found in the distant sea: 'A whole translucent
geology, / cross-sections of light and water'. Poetry for Luther is
a way of finding a way, of making connections and sharing our
complex lives in an interdependent present. The roles of lover and
beloved become - almost - interchangeable in these richly
visualised poems.
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