Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2013.
Struck through with brilliant and sometimes sinister imagery reminiscent of Pan's Labyrinth or an Angela Carter novel, The Shipwrecked House is a unique and hallucinatory debut from a poet-to-watch.
| Primary Genre | Poetry |
Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by young Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trevien. These poems are sketches, lyrics, dreams, and experiments in language as sound. Trevien's is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is alive and - like the sea itself - constantly shifting form. Fishermen become owls; one woman turns into a snake, another gives birth to a tree; a glow-worm might be a wasp or 'a toy on standby'.
The Shipwrecked House features in the following genres: Poetry, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
The Shipwrecked House is available in Paperback
The Shipwrecked House was written by Claire Trevien and published by Penned in the Margins
The Shipwrecked House has 62 pages
£8.09
