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Launched Durham Literature Festival
October 13 2006.
"Tenderness and humour . . elevate this collection from accomplished to excellent." Deborah Murray
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THE LADEN TABLE Celia McCulloch has a strong American voice: wise, salty, the kind you expect to hear from a rocking chair on porches, no nonsense yet full of poetic instances. In another century she would have been a pioneer, sewing beautiful quilts, bottling fruits. It is sheer pleasure to read her poems, full of earthy energy and humour and skilled crafting, a laden table that is a delight, giving good advice on fungi and love in middle age and how to admonish yourself kindly.
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Launched Durham Literature Festival
October 13 2006.
"words in the page leaping to life with searing, unforgettable vivacity."Deborah Murray
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THE SPAR BOX Pippa Little moves in territories where exile is ever present, where treasures are hoarded: the words of the mother tongue, a lost Jewish quarter, a father's library, the crystals of a mine; the poems memorialise the almost forgotten, even forsaken detritus on a beach. There's a sense of Middle European wandering between states, post-war dislocations: she's collected it all in her spar box of brilliant poetry.
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY PAMPHLET CHOICE
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