Crowd Sensations
Judy Brown’s new poetry collection, Crowd Sensations, showcases her subtle and dazzling style. A poet whose work is inspired as much by thoughtful speculation and metaphysics as it is by personal experience and relationships, Brown’s poems surprise and delight at every turn. A central theme is the contrast between the city and the countryside. As well as spells living in London and Hong Kong, the author’s recent residencies at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere and at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales have provided key moments of inspiration. Her skill at paradox is evident in poems of unsettling intimacy, such as ‘Poem In Which I Am Not Shortsighted’ alongside poems of uneasy domesticity such as ‘On The Last Evening We Watch Movies in Bed’. There is also some quiet, edgy humour in ‘Poem in the Voice of a Dead Cockroach’ and ‘Was this review helpful to you?’.
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Crowd Sensations
Judy Brown’s new poetry collection, Crowd Sensations, showcases her subtle and dazzling style. A poet whose work is inspired as much by thoughtful speculation and metaphysics as it is by personal experience and relationships, Brown’s poems surprise and delight at every turn. A central theme is the contrast between the city and the countryside. As well as spells living in London and Hong Kong, the author’s recent residencies at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere and at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales have provided key moments of inspiration. Her skill at paradox is evident in poems of unsettling intimacy, such as ‘Poem In Which I Am Not Shortsighted’ alongside poems of uneasy domesticity such as ‘On The Last Evening We Watch Movies in Bed’. There is also some quiet, edgy humour in ‘Poem in the Voice of a Dead Cockroach’ and ‘Was this review helpful to you?’.
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Crowd Sensations

Crowd Sensations

by Judy Brown
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Crowd Sensations

by Judy Brown

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Judy Brown’s new poetry collection, Crowd Sensations, showcases her subtle and dazzling style. A poet whose work is inspired as much by thoughtful speculation and metaphysics as it is by personal experience and relationships, Brown’s poems surprise and delight at every turn. A central theme is the contrast between the city and the countryside. As well as spells living in London and Hong Kong, the author’s recent residencies at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere and at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales have provided key moments of inspiration. Her skill at paradox is evident in poems of unsettling intimacy, such as ‘Poem In Which I Am Not Shortsighted’ alongside poems of uneasy domesticity such as ‘On The Last Evening We Watch Movies in Bed’. There is also some quiet, edgy humour in ‘Poem in the Voice of a Dead Cockroach’ and ‘Was this review helpful to you?’.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781723159
Publisher: Seren
Publication date: 04/01/2016
Edition description: None
Pages: 72
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Judy Brown was born in Cheshire and studied English at the universities of Cambridge and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is now based in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, working as a freelance writer, and tutor. During 2013 Judy was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, at Dove Cottage in Grasmere. Her first book, Loudness was shortlisted for the Forward and Aldeburgh prizes for best first collection.

Table of Contents

After the Discovery of linear Perspective 9

The Astronauts 10

This Is Not a Garden 11

A Trapped Rat Finds Another Kind of Freedom 12

The Unbeliever Speaks to God 13

The Street of the Dried Seafood Shops, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong 14

The Dehumidifier 15

Just About Now 16

The Importers 17

The Dive: Town End, January 2013 18

Skymap Says We're Nowhere Near Home 19

Poem in Which I Am Not Shortsighted 20

Where to Begin a New Life 21

The Prodigal 22

The Third Umpire 23

A Preparation for Loneliness 24

Umami 25

Long Range Forecast 26

The Things She Burned That Year 27

The Green Man 28

Songs from West equilibria (1) - The Corner House B&B 29

Unsafe Harbour 30

Songs from West Cumbria (2) - The Leaks: The Golf Hotel, Silloth 31

One of the Summer People 32

Dove Cottage Ferns 33

Was This Review Helpful to You? 34

Poem in the Voice of a Dead Cockroach 35

The Post Box in the Wall 36

Prescription for a Middle-Aged Reader 37

On a Woodblock Prepared for Engraving 38

Three Lessons in Ignition, 1 Sykeside 39

On the Last Evening We Watch Movies in Bed 40

The Hostess 41

The Piñata 42

Temptation 43

Songs from West Cumbria (5) - Room 204 (Double for single use) 44

The Madonna of Oxfam 45

The Knowledge 46

Exit, Through the Museum Shop 47

The Corner Shop 48

Elterwater Rain 49

The Evacuees 50

Antidote 51

Memorial 52

Coal 53

King Tak Hong Porcelain, Queen's Road East, Wan Chai 54

We Prayed for a Man Without a Beard 55

Sweet Sixteen by a Cold Wall 56

Songs from West Cumbria (7) - It Is Harder to Leave Sand than to Be Left by Sand 57

Praise Poem for the Urbanites 58

Acknowledgements 61

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