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celebration and mourning
A brilliant debut from Melita Hume Poetry Prize Winner 2016 Jenna Clake
’ – John McAuliffe
Some of the voices fear involvement
Effortlessly immediate and contemporary
Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton celebration and mourningTessa Berrings Folded Purse is a rigorous and playful study of the known world and its ultimately unknowable things. Within its folds, poems call to, sometimes quarrel with, each other as images (a warm spell, an outdoor cow) slip from one poem to another. Some of these poems offer miraculously vivid excavations of such everyday objects as the humble scatter cushion, while others ache with the longing to touch, really touch, everything everything
