Book Description
"How is one to speak with the dead?" "Anyone for tea before night falls?" In this volume, celebrated, multi award-winning new poet Alison Pick grapples with these questions, from the work of poets like Sylvia Plath and Patrick Lane. The resulting meditations are by turns spiritual and earthy, accessible and complex, thoughtful and wrenching. Question and Answer announces the arrival of a brave and extraordinary new poetic voice.
Question and Answer: Poems FROM THE PUBLISHER
"How is one to speak with the dead?" "Anyone for tea before night falls?" In this volume, celebrated, multi award-winning new poet Alison Pick grapples with these questions, from the work of poets like Sylvia Plath and Patrick Lane. The resulting meditations are by turns spiritual and earthy, accessible and complex, thoughtful and wrenching. Question and Answer announces the arrival of a brave and extraordinary new poetic voice.