Flood
eBook - ePub

Flood

  1. 79 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Flood

About this book

The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the country submerged, including her home town. Flood offers an eye-witness account of those events, from rainfall to rescue, but ripples out from there. Intimately interwoven with the breakdown of a relationship, flooding serves as a powerful metaphor for wider experiences of loss, destruction and recovery. Testifying equally to the forces that destroy us and save us, flood runs through the book in different forms – bereavement and trauma, the Savile scandal, life in an asylum. Yet ultimately, this is a story of one life as it is unravelled and rebuilt, written from the heart and from the North, in a language as dangerous and sustaining as water.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781780374208
eBook ISBN
9781780374215
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. What do I know
  5. Who knows what it’s like
  6. Instructions for coping in terrible times
  7. For the journey.
  8. Late Afternoon, Allan Bank
  9. Water as Religion
  10. And still I don’t know
  11. Lovehearts
  12. Double
  13. Hydrology
  14. Weather warning
  15. How I heard
  16. Roads and paths covered; flash flooding on steeper slopes
  17. Flood Town
  18. Why did the sand blush?
  19. Grabbed.
  20. Rainhill Psychiatric Hospital 1992
  21. This is a man.
  22. For the love of
  23. Just look
  24. Grim
  25. Who said
  26. Telling Tales
  27. Nothing I’m afraid to write except for words
  28. My father was no ordinary man
  29. My mother was a verified miracle.
  30. Low lying regions inundated. Large objects begin to float
  31. Divorce
  32. Rescue effort
  33. Measures of Goodness
  34. This is for Stanley and Da...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. What do I know
  8. Who knows what it’s like
  9. Instructions for coping in terrible times
  10. For the journey
  11. Late Afternoon, Allan Bank
  12. Water as Religion
  13. And still I don’t know
  14. Lovehearts
  15. Double
  16. Hydrology
  17. Weather warning
  18. How I heard
  19. Roads and paths covered; flash flooding on steeper slopes
  20. Flood Town
  21. Why did the sand blush?
  22. Grabbed
  23. Rainhill Psychiatric Hospital 1992
  24. This is a man
  25. For the love of
  26. Just look
  27. Grim
  28. Who said
  29. Telling Tales
  30. Nothing I’m afraid to write except for words
  31. My father was no ordinary man
  32. My mother was a verified miracle
  33. Low lying regions inundated. Large objects begin to float
  34. Divorce
  35. Rescue effort
  36. Measures of Goodness
  37. This is for Stanley and Dan
  38. Major structures destroyed; terrain significantly altered
  39. A love song to punctuation
  40. Catastrophic devastation; damage complete
  41. Love is not
  42. Pinnacle Ridge
  43. The Cruellest Month
  44. I don’t remember anything about hydrangeas
  45. Open Door Policy
  46. I came back
  47. The Lost King of Calderdale
  48. I sing for the man on the bus
  49. Flood as Redemption
  50. Teaching Your Daughter to Swim
  51. Since I woke up as a spider
  52. I woz ere
  53. About the Author
  54. Copyright