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SHEER POETRY ON CAMPUS

Monday 26 October 2009

Book cover: Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves

On Friday 30 October at 14:15 - in between guest lecturing slots on the University's new Creative Writing courses - poet Pat Winslow will be at the University Book Shop, signing copies of her wonderful books of poems, Unpredictable Geometry and Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves.

Why not do some early Christmas shopping and give someone you love a signed work of art?

Pat Winslow worked for twelve years as an actor and left the theatre in 1987 to take up writing. Her other poetry collections include Skin & Dust (Blinking Eye), The Girl in the Iron Lung (Crocus), The Fact of an Eye (Amazing Colossal) and Harvest (Jackson's Arm). Her latest collection, Unpredictable Geometry, was published by Templar Poetry (external link) in 2008 to great critical acclaim.

Here is a poet of keen vision, remembering and analysing the past. Her language balances on the tightrope stretching between past and future – 'A little kindness in salt, a little bitterness / on the tongue'. In this original and moving collection we see how this poet explores her ‘geometries’ of place and event with wit, delicacy of perception, and panache.
Penelope Shuttle

Winslow is a rapidly maturing poetic voice on the UK poetry scene and deals with the froth and the frith in balanced and equal measure.
Gary Boswell (Stride Magazine)

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