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Tilt | Jean Sprackland
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Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped. These are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive. Bracken may run wild across the planet 'waiting for the moment/to pounce on the accident/of the discarded match' but there are also the significant wonders of children and the natural beauty of the world they've inherited. Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth.
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I didn't realise the author was local until I came to this poem about coastal toads...

Bookwomble I grew up in Southport but have never seen a natterjack toad, other than on TV or in books. As an old school Sandgrounder, that feels something of a deficiency. 2w
charl08 @Bookwomble I've only ever seen the signs/ info boards, apparently you have to go when there are no people... 2w
Bookwomble @charl08 me, too. As they're vulnerable and protected, it's understandable 💚 2w
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