Red Gloves

By Rebecca Watts

In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Met Office Advises Caution , Rebecca Watts observes and tests the limits of humanity's engagement with the non-human. By turns lyrical and narrative, the poems examine familiar subjects - environmental crisis, hawks, hospitals, the sea, barbecues, flowers, Emily Dickinson - only to find their subjects staring, sometimes fighting, back. Nature and nurture, equally red in tooth and claw, power a book-long sparring match between the overthinking poet and the ever-thoughtless universe, between the craft's isolation and the world's irrepressible variety. Gloves on and gloves off, the poet's hands destroy and build, gather and scatter, caress and strike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178410955X
• ISBN13: 9781784109554
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"