Bathwater - Couverture souple

Foster, Vicky

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903110653 ISBN 13 : 9781903110652

Editeur : Wrecking Ball Press, 2019

Synopsis

*Winner of the Imison Award 2020*

Vicky Foster is one very capable writer and Bathwater is a very personal story. Using her own real-life experience of what happens when violence spills over into family life, Bathwater is a gripping, ever-twisting, often moving, somewhat shocking and often agonising piece of work. Rather than a cathartic over-share, however, Foster goes way beyond writing what she knows in order to craft something that is simultaneously hard-hitting and poetic. She has written a work of literary beauty, despite the harsh and uncomfortable subject matter, combining prose, poetry and dialogue.

There's a sense of urgency to the storytelling here, an urge to take this to the wider public when given the chance, because this is very important territory for a writer, and specifically this writer, to chart. Yet the desire to tell it like it was, and is, doesn't get in the way of writing something that is also entertaining and blurs the lines of fact and fiction, as the character Vicky, and her son Joseph, both attempt to come to terms with the violent man that was in their lives, and how to move on from the past, their humanity and personalities intact, and build a future.

Translating experiences into fiction and poetry is not a simple business, but Foster has the skills and talent to do it, and do it well. She also writes with one eye on what she'd hope to experience, which is another part of the engine that drives this bold, brave and vital work.

This is as bold a line in the sand as a writer can make to announce their arrival. Given her enormous talent and ability to weave a piece of work so well, there ll be plenty more to come from Foster's experience-fuelled imagination as she strides, confidently, into the literary and poetic world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vicky Foster is a poet living and working in Hull. As well as performing all over, she delivers writing and performance workshops, and is founder of the monthly event Women of Words. Her first collection Changing Tides was published by Kings England Press in 2016, as part of their Humber Sound collection. She was one of the BBC's chosen poets for their massive spoken word festival Contains Strong Language in 2017, and again in 2018. She has performed many times on the radio, including BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio 3, 4, 5 & 6, and at events including Freedom Festival, John Grant's North Atlantic Flux, Cornucopia, Humber Mouth, Poetry at The Parsonage, Wakefield Literature Festival, Bridlington Literature Festival and Unity Words.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wrecking Ball Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1903110653
• ISBN 13: 9781903110652
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 53
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible