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What is it to return, in imagination, to the house in which her father died? Can one ultimately relinquish one’s childhood home to its new owners? The second arc explores the effect of the loss of the family home in the long poem ‘Afterlife.’ The house is a place of memory and of dream, an upbringing in a house crowded with sisters and then with her sisters’ children: “once three sat atop/ the upright piano/ playing the keys/ with their feet”. She muses on the various meanings of ‘Prairie’ and understands a landscape can haunt the imagination the way the past haunts the present. Etter offers us a vivid impression of the American prairie with its cornfields extending to the horizon.
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Yet the relationship to place also includes its appreciation. The first of the book’s three arcs explores the family’s relationship to the weather and place, from the father’s obsession with the weather, to the brutal effects of the winters on the family, resulting in broken bones, the recognition of poverty, and the father’s paralysis. This introduces us to the main themes of memory and recollection, of mature reflections on youthful experiences, of multiple, shifting perspectives. The book opens with ‘Night Ode’, a poem set on a single street at night, the protagonist walking and feeling the oppressive summer heat, the humming of cicadas and the various ages she has walked the same road: “sixteen, nineteen, twenty-four, thirty-seven…”. The Weather in Normal is not a set of straightforward memories but a slowly shifting entity, like a moving storm. ‘It’s well-nigh impossible to convey with quotation how Etter’s use of language, form, restraint and space combine to such impressive effect.’ – Stride magazineĬarrie Etter’s fourth poetry collection focuses on her hometown of Normal, Illinois, in the American Midwest. Looking for more seasonal poetry? Discover these beautiful autumn poems.Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Winter 2018 Only, of course, they can't sustain the part. (And they were never really stars at heart) That though they never equal stars in size, Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainĪ Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll Mark Twain's classic book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is available as a Macmillan Collector's Library edition. This poem features in Richard Osmond's Costa Poetry Award shortlisted debut collection, Useful Verses. On commodity futures, the wonders of the eastĪnd the behaviour of insects in Liverpool They brought silk and saffron and stories This says less about ants than it doesĪbout the state of media in which we place There is an increasingly common assertion This poem features in A Poem for Every Night of the Year, edited by Allie Esiri.
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A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare Our queen and all her elves come here anon.Ī Midsummer Night's Dream is available from the Macmillan Collector's Library. Over hill, over dale - from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeareįarewell, thou lob of spirits: I’ll be gone