Publisher | Faber And Faber |
Language | English |
Book type | Paperback |
Utgiven | 2024-01-04 |
Pages | 112 |
ISBN | 9780571362288 |
Kategori(er) |
Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time.
But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. 'Tenants', the first poem, is an elegy for Grenfell, written from the uneasy perspective of a new mother living a few streets away. Elsewhere, from the terraces and precincts of seventies and eighties London to the late-at-night decks of American suburbs, intimately inhabited geographies provide reference points and sites for revisiting.
Nothing is too small or unlovely to be transfixed by the poet's attention, from the thin concrete pillars of a flyover to an elderly peacock's broken train. There is a memorialising strain in the forensic accumulation of detail, but there is also celebration, a keen sense of holding on to and cherishing what we can.
'Rare, sympathetic, exceptionally readable.' Kate Kellaway, Observer Poetry Book of the Month
'Was it For This is a tour de force that fulfils its own powerful desire on the page.' Martina Evans, Irish Times
'Hannah Sullivan's poetry is exceptional in the specificity and candour with which it draws on autobiography and retrospection.' Stephen Knight, Literary Review
So far, we have reused
2
5
0
6
1
6
3
books.
Sweden's friendliest and environmental friendliest bookshop with the lowest priced textbooks.
This is our ambition, and we do what it takes to get there. We are here to help students to save and earn money on their textbooks while we at the same time save the environment. We were started in 2005 by two students and have since strived to constantly make it easier to buy and sell used textbooks for as many as possible.
Subscribe to receive our best student tips, offers and promotions.
Read more about how we handle personal data in our privacy policy.