Bending into the Light

Alice Attie's new collection of poems, Bending into the Light, explores the complexities of human experience during the pandemic, featuring intricate language and contemplative themes. The poems are set on a shifting threshold, where beings, things, and ideas flow through language, exuding their own aura and being. Attie's voice is intimate and shapes the space of being and non-being, merging the quotidian with the philosophical. The collection extols and mourns, celebrating the profound knowledge that "the voice has no center."

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 100 pages
Publication date: 04 May 2023
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

A captivating and poignant anthology of poetry penned during the pandemic, Alice Attie's latest collection, Bending into the Light, stands poised on a constantly shifting threshold, where words oscillate between "up and down, side to side" and manifest as "figures in the distance approaching, each a declaration, each persisting." Within the vessel of language, beings, things, ideas, present or vanishing, flow, exuding their own aura, essence, and disappearance. Attie's voice is intricate and intimate, shaping and reshaping the realms of being and non-being, creating a profound tapestry of contemplation. Interwoven with a few haunting photographs and artworks, these poems celebrate and lament, merging the ordinary with the philosophical, where we are shaped and transformed by the profound knowledge that "the voice has no center."

Weight: 146g
Dimension: 153 x 228 x 7 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803091686