Quicksand Beach

Kate Bingham

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2006

 

Kate Bingham’s second collection, Quicksand Beach, will please fans of her fiction and of her first book of poems, Cohabitation. She has a beautifully poised natural tone composed of intelligence and a slightly subversive sense of humour, and captures her subjects with precision and grace.

 

Quiver

Deryn Rees-Jones

Intended to be read from beginning to end, Quiver is a book-length poem - a murder-mystery - which explores the nature of creativity. Fay Thomas, a poet with writer’s block, becomes a murder suspect after...