Sign-In
Cart
Emerald
Paperback
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN13: 9781784741075
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: Oct 1 2018
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
'Here in deep earth the black
Blossom of mourning still sifting within me
I remembered that emerald was my birthstone...'
Prizewinning poet Ruth Padel's searching and tender-hearted new collection is an elegy for her mother, at her passing at the age of 97.
With resonating honesty, Padel soulfully examines the assemblage of her grief - the memories, belongings, photographs or conversations that bring a lost person to life - as well as the patterns they leave beneath on the bedrock of the heart.
With an imagination that turns to, and finds solace in, both the natural world and in travel, Emerald is a tender-hearted chronicle of loss, written by a daughter for her mother, but also a reminder of renewal amid ruins: of rediscovering all that is precious in what is left behind.
Also from
Padel, Ruth
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paperback
A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup, Celebrating Community, Friendship, and Resilience
Jackson, Major
Hardcover