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    The Long Beds
    The Long Beds
    The Long Beds
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    The Long Beds

    By Kate Miller

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    A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2020 Recommendation. The Long Beds explores the cell-like containment of the small hours when the body has no estate but its bed, while - waking or dreaming - the mind sets out on its travels, often in the realms of an old life, cherished items or relinquished connections. Central to the poems' imagery is the presence of a bedstead that has survived a bombing raid, protecting only what was bundled underneath it. In painterly language Kate Miller also trains her eye and ear outwards on grand, impersonal scenes: London at dawn, riverbanks and docks, the corridors of a great hospital: to uncover fogged experience and restore colour to memory. Her poems prod us awake at first light and release us into the morning.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateDec 21, 2020
    ISBN9781784109684
    The Long Beds
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    Kate Miller

    Kate Miller is a writer, editor and creative writing teacher. Following a career in journalism, she gained an MA in playwriting from Essex University and co-founded Pins & Feathers Productions with Richard Syms. As well as the three plays in this collection, she has written First Light - a contemporary Passion Play (2015) and Plenty of Punch (2016) for Pins & Feathers. Her other plays include: The Noose of Light, about Edward Fitzgerald, the 19th century poet, produced by WriteOn, performed at the ADC Theatre Cambridge; Circlemakers, a short radio play, broadcast on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, produced by Menagerie Theatre, Cambridge; Another Fine Mess, produced at the Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin, Herts; and Shipton Blank, one of five winners in Equity / Writers' Guild / Directors' Guild competition, produced at Riverside Studios, London.

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