I The Teign, Devon II The Barle, Somerset III The Ouse, Surrey IV The Ouse, Surrey V Grasmere, Cumbria VI Hampstead Heath, London VII Kings Cross Pond, London Poems for my Father VIII Llyn Gwynant, SnowdoniaI X Llyn Idwal, Snowdonia X The English Channel, Brighton XI Portmeor, Cornwall XII The Dart, Devon
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is an author, academic and founder of Grow Your Own Creativity. A writer of English and Kenyan heritage, she was born in Devon and her work is inspired by the landscape in which she was raised. Her poetry has been highly commended in the Forward Prize and Swims was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year.
If poetry has a value over and above what the market assigns, then
perhaps the fluid line and deep currents of Swims can help resist
environmental catastrophe.
Richard Lea, The Guardian
A clear-eyed ecological poem that washes off the urban world.
Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Sunday Times
This book refreshes like an icy dip, startling us from both comfort
and despair. Burnett's poems invite the reader into the water with
them; to take action, accept responsibility, and find joy: "it is
all yours, this open possibility".
Emily Hasler, The Poetry Review
A revelatory poetics ... [Burnett] maps coordinates across time and
geography, producing a luminous, hallucinatory effect of an
endlessly drifting, spinning world.
Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell, Poetry London
Language is at full spate here. We can see why the collection
should be considered one long poem, working in the liminal space of
merger and separation that matches both the acts of swimming and
memory, marked by the pulse of consonantal music.
Andrew Jeffrey, Poetry School
Lush with lyric.
Claire Crowther, Magma
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