This Is Not a Rescue

by Emily Blewitt

Overview

Emily Blewitt’s debut collection of poetry is This Is Not a Rescue (Seren). The Carmarthen-born young author writes beautifully considered poems about love and relationships (‘I Threw Myself at You’, ‘Navigation Points’), about living in modern Wales (‘How to Explain Hiraeth to an Englishman’), satirical pieces about office life (‘When I Think of Bald Men’), as well as more occasional poems (‘Devouring Jane’– on Jane Austen’s heroes – and ‘Boba Fett and the Sarlacc’, a couple of cult characters plucked from Star Wars).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781724095
Publisher:	Seren
Publication date:	12/01/2017
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Emily Blewitt was born in Carmarthen, Wales. She read English Language and Literature at St Hilda’s College, Oxford (2004-2007), and has an MA in Film and Literature from the University of York (2009). She recently completed a PhD at Cardiff University, where her doctoral research explored the poetic representations of pregnancy by women writers from the nineteenth century to the present day. She has published poetry in The Rialto, Ambit, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House, Furies, Hinterland, Brittle Star, and Cheval. The title poem from this first collection was Highly Commended in the 2017 Forward Prize anthology.