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The Language of Now
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781915606815
Publisher: Valley Press
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
In The Language of Now, Anne Caldwell crafts prose poems rooted in a northern sense of place - bogs and backstreets, weather and wild margins - while the wider world warms, falters and changes. These pieces thrive on juxtaposition: illness alongside birdsong, childhood memory beside urban grit, the tenderness of connection shadowed by pandemic distance. Caldwell's lines move with the down-to-earth cadence of prose and the lifted music of poetry, catching small beauties without looking away.
Real and fairytale braid together; memoir slips into myth; humans transform into birds; language is lost, recovered, remade. As the title poem notes, 'The language of now is short and full of gaps' - and Caldwell turns those gaps into breathing space, where grief, humour and wonder can coexist. The result is intimate eco-poetics that feels both consoling and bracing, offering quiet resistance as it teaches us how to notice closely, again, right now.
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