In the Quaker Hotel
- 110 páginas
- 4 horas de lectura
This new collection from Helen Tookey is a book of questionings, exploring the present moment as a threshold between remembered past and uncertain future.
Helen Tookey explora las intrincadas conexiones entre el lenguaje, el cuerpo y la sociedad, a menudo adentrándose en temas de identidad y memoria. Su escritura se caracteriza por un rico paisaje metafórico y una imaginería cuidadosamente elaborada, que atrae a los lectores al corazón de las experiencias vividas. El enfoque de la autora hacia la poesía es profundamente reflexivo, enfatizando la investigación de significados ocultos y cómo nuestros mundos interiores se manifiestan externamente. Sus obras invitan a la contemplación sobre las complejidades de la existencia humana y la capacidad del lenguaje para articularlas.


This new collection from Helen Tookey is a book of questionings, exploring the present moment as a threshold between remembered past and uncertain future.
According to the seventeenth-century herbarium The Garden of Eden, a ‘missel-child’ is a mysterious being found beneath a mistletoe-covered tree – a changeling, perhaps, ‘whereof many strange things are conceived’. Helen Tookey’s first full collection of poems starts from the missel-child to explore archaeologies of identity, place and language. She is a formally inventive writer, using collage and syllabics, exploring elegy and myth. The poems in this book create a space in which language enables something to be said and also to be shown.