Beyond Calling Distance [Paperback]

Esther Morgan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 6, 2002

These poems travel great distances across huge landscapes, both real and metaphorical: the big skies and endless horizons of the English Fens, the dust and rock of the Moon, the seas and deserts of dreams. Out of these distances, voices speak, or try to, wanting to bridge the gap, to connect, to be heard as well as to listen. Many of her characters are isolated people: the woman taken in adultery, a traveler lost in the Australian outback, a suicide waiting to be discovered, the survivors of war. Balancing doubt with faith in language, these figures in a landscape depict themselves and the strange worlds they inhabit in sensuous detail. Beyond calling distance, at the edge of the audible, Esther Morgan's delightfully elusive poems await their reader.

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About the Author

Esther Morgan was bornin 1970 in Kidiminster. After reading English at Newham Collage, Cambridge, she worked as a volunteer at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, Cumbria. She took an MA in creative writting at the University of East Anglia and has since taught on its under-graduate creative writing programmr, editing the UEA new poetry anthology reactions. In 1998, she won an Eric Gregory Award, and taught at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Austrlia. Beyond calling distance is her first book of poems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd (May 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852245700
• ISBN-13: 978-1852245702
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,227,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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