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Jay Whittaker's debut collection, Wristwatch, won the 2018 Saltire
prize for Poetry Book of the Year. In this eagerly awaited
follow-up, Jay explores themes of origin, asking what shapes us
most: our biological heritage or the societies we find ourselves
born into? Her work draws deeply from the landscapes of the
Hebrides and East Lothian, from the natural world in general. Yet,
often, it returns to the fleshly bodies we inhabit and through
which we experience everything - as in her debut, in Sweet
Anaesthetist Jay discusses the frailty of the body and the task of
living with cancer - but she also turns outwards, to beings
encountered and too easily overlooked in the rush of the
day-to-day: friends, acquaintances, the smallest creatures with
which we share our days. Culminating in the prose poetry sequence,
'Egg Case', Sweet Anaesthetist is a vibrant, transfixing plunge
into the stuff of life itself.
Wristwatch is a volume of personal poetry that charts a course
through cancer treatment and recovery, to becoming a widow at 44.
-- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
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