Kingdomland

Zusatztext

Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen - a writer of rare vision and bravery, humanity and flare, of wit, candour and forward brilliance. Her poems are peculiarly rich, suffused with surreal images and uncanny incidents to create bewitching worlds. Omens, sorcery, and unexplained violences take shape in the glowering dusk. We are faced with strange metamorphoses, grotesque bodies, hauntings and impassable paths. And yet, all too clearly we recognise the everyday injustices, griefs and dysfunctions of life here on earth, which Allen chronicles with such balance and, often, sympathy. Kingdomland expresses the fearless cut of Allen's verbal and written edge, and the wild colours of her imagination.

Autorenportrait

Rachael Allen was born in 1989 in Cornwall and studied English Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the poetry editor for Granta, co-editor at the poetry press Clinic and of the online journal Tender. Rachael was a Faber New Poet, whose pamphlet was published in 2014. She is the co-author of Jolene, a collaborative book of poems and photographs with the artist Guy Gormley, and Nights of Poor Sleep, a collaboration with the artist Marie Jacotey.

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