We could be anywhere by now / Katharine Stansfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stansfield, Katherine, 1983- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

86 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Bridgend, Wales : Seren, [2020].

Summary:

"Katherine Stansfield has made a name for herself both as a wryly witty poet of the everyday seen 'aslant' and as a popular novelist of crime and fantasy. Her second poetry collection, We Could Be Anywhere by Now, is pointedly full of poems about placement and displacement. After a childhood on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, she moved to mid Wales, and this book explores relationships between these two places along personal and linguistic lines, as well as notions of insider / outsider in Wales and England, learning languages, and the languages of learning to leave places behind. New horizons beckon: we voyage to Italy, Canada, the United States. Stansfield is never eager to pronounce but always approaches her subjects in an oblique, artful way, carefully avoiding cliché and relishing the strange, the overheard, the marginal, the accidental comedy and tragedy of the everyday."-- Publisher description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One

Fear of flying course

Iaith / Ilaeth

Tick ONE answer only

Misdirection

Against blood

Soundings, Newtown

After living in Wales my voice

Two

Beware Welsh learners

Second Welsh class

Welsh has no K

FOG

Ecoutez la cassette

Klonjuze

Fourth Welsh class

Cornish / Welsh / space

Messages in bottles found at Tan-y-Bwlch, Aberystwyth

The suitcases

Three

Old airfield, Davidstow

The local historian questions her life choices

Bodmin Moor time capsule

Talk of her

At the Minack

Alternative route

From the notes found in the wreckage of the university

And his daughter

You have to be easy-going as a Susan

At the Bristol half marathon

Poem for a wedding

Mars Girl

Soyuz

Four

One way

Flight risk

Fire at the National Library of Wales

Please don't take me away from Morrisons

Amy, how to write poems

Soundings, Oxford

Spaghetti al Wittgenstein

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Chatignac

When I was at my most fortunate

Five

Vexiphobia

Relative distance

At a party in the States

Three beers in, Sunset Beach, Vancouver

The birds of British Columbia.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

1781725675

9781781725672

OCLC:

1123238298

Publisher Number:

99986141513