Woman's Head as Jug
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Especially appealing to anyone interested in the visual arts, this new collection is the result of collaboration between poet Jackie Wills and painter Jane Fordham. The poems have a touch as deft as the seamstresses and other craftspeople who populate the book, before pulling out into the wider worlds of mythology, folklore and the visceral routine of daily life."She is at her best when most surprising, bringing flashes of the extraordinary to the everyday." – Christina Patterson, The Independent"Her talent for thoughtful... observation, accompanied by brisk injections of the personal and the strikingly real, is indisputably clear." – Kate North

Jackie Wills 's most recent poetry collection is Commandments (Arc, 2007). Her first, Powder Tower (Arc, 1995), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, while Party (Leviathan, 2000) was acclaimed by Ruth Padel in the Independent on Sunday. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, and her work appears on a dress by designer Helen Storey, in the animated film Alphabetic (2006), and on a path in Farnham by potter Julian Belmonte. She lives in Brighton.

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Publisher
Arc Publications
Year
2013
ISBN
9781908376299
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


JACKIE WILLS has published three collections of poetry with Arc Publications: Powder Tower (1995), Fever Tree (2003), Commandments (2007) and one with Leviathan: Party (2000). Powder Tower was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and Wills was shortlisted for the 1995 T.S. Eliot prize. In 2004, Mslexia magazine named her one of the 10 new woman poets of the decade.
Born in Wiltshire, Wills now lives in Brighton. She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the universities of Surrey and Sussex between 2009 and 2012.
Selected titles in Arc Publications’ POETRY FROM THE UK / IRELAND include:

LIZ ALMOND
The Shut Drawer
Yelp!

 D M BLACK
Claiming Kindred

 JAMES BYRNE
Blood / Sugar

 JONATHAN ASSER
Outside The All Stars

 DONALD ATKINSON
In Waterlight: Poems New, Selected & Revised

 ELIZABETH BARRETT
A Dart of Green & Blue

 JOANNA BOULTER
Twenty Four Preludes & Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich

 THOMAS A CLARK
The Path to the Sea

 TONY CURTIS
What Darkness Covers
The Well in the Rain
folk

 JULIA DARLING
Sudden Collapses in Public Places
Apology for Absence

 CLIFF FORSHAW
Vandemonian

 LINDA FRANCE
You Are Her

 KATHERINE GALLAGHER
Circus-Apprentice
Carnival Edge

 CHRISSIE GITTINS
Armature

 RICHARD GWYN
Sad Giraffe Café

 GLYN HUGHES
A Year in the Bull-Box

 MICHAEL HASLAM
The Music Laid Her Songs in Language
A Sinner Saved by Grace
A Cure for Woodness

 MICHAEL HULSE
The Secret History
Half-Life

 BRIAN JOHNSTONE
The Book of Belongings

 JOEL LANE
Trouble in th...

Table of contents

  1. Author’s Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. I
  4. A lone leaping woman
  5. Owner of a mangle
  6. Feather-wife
  7. Saturday girl
  8. Grace-wife
  9. Herring girl
  10. Dorset buttonmaker
  11. Blacksmith
  12. Corset-maker
  13. Fripperer
  14. Boarding house keeper
  15. Ale-wife
  16. II
  17. Forest choir
  18. Words for women
  19. Woman’s head as jug
  20. Cliff
  21. La Fontasse
  22. Calanque
  23. Fireworks on the Feast of the Assumption
  24. The seals’ goodbye
  25. Mackerel shoal
  26. Her year
  27. Translations from the silence of colour
  28. Canopy
  29. Balance
  30. Moults
  31. The change
  32. What she became
  33. Five aunts
  34. III SWEATS
  35. Elephants
  36. She wants a baby
  37. It’s unclear how much of a man she needs
  38. A woman without a man
  39. When she finds herself at the top of the stairs, she becomes an ipod on shuffle
  40. Libido
  41. Clots
  42. Four professors at the menopause symposium
  43. Her beard
  44. Spiders have placed a cataplasm of webs
  45. Smear
  46. Hypothalamus
  47. Superannuation
  48. Her mirror face is spinning
  49. Veins
  50. Her troubles
  51. Her heart
  52. Trace
  53. Atrophy
  54. IV
  55. Return
  56. Imagining my great grandmother
  57. The air on Lewes Road
  58. The kitchen floor
  59. Dirty business
  60. The day before he left
  61. Landlord visiting the student quarter
  62. Sandwich man advertising pizza
  63. Recovering you
  64. Stolen identity
  65. Sheepcote Valley
  66. Gyratory
  67. Funeral horses
  68. Biographical Note