Burying the Wren

By Deryn Rees-Jones

In Burying the Wren Deryn Rees-Jones returns to familiar preoccupations but with a new clarity and maturity of vision. With intense lyricism she calls on the Roethkean 'small things' of the universe -- truffles, slugs, trilobites, birds, stones, feathers, flowers, eggs -- which, mysterious, and magical as well as ordinary -- she sets up against loss. Her sequence of 'Dogwoman' poems, which draws on the work of artist Paula Rego, is a an extended elegy to her late husband, the poet and critic Michael Murphy. Above all these are poems of the body, "...the blue heartstopping pulse at the wrist", which are alive to the world and the transformative qualities of love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Seren
• Release date: Nov 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781854115980

Deryn Rees-Jones

Deryn Rees-Jones works as a poet, editor and critic. She won an Eric Gregory Award and The Memory Tray (1995) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is Professor of Poetry at Liverpool University, and editor of the poetry series for Pavilion Press).