Suki, struggling writer, still earning her keep working as a model for artists, continues her quest for literary success while battling with self-doubt and loneliness, in this second part of her autobiographical trilogy. Liaisons with dissatisfactory males have been part of life since the end of her long affair with intellectual German Ilka. Part II opens with Suki alone once again after her latest doomed fling. The ongoing failure to get her novel published is undermining her raison d'etre, and with lonely middle-age looming, Suki's soldierly determination wavers. But then, unforeseen events unfold... Part II of Suki's autobiographical trilogy.
These are poems with strong, straight-talking narratives punctuated by keenly observed birds amidst the bleak land and seascapes of northern Britain. This early collection of poems by Arts Council (UK) award-winning writer Sue Vickerman is about relationships that are illustrated, if not shaped and directed by, that sometimes harsh world that is 'nature'. Her poems have been described as "windows onto worlds where various degrees of unsatisfactoriness are revealed... The essential mode is 'watching' and Sue Vickerman's gaze is uncompromising, direct and wide-ranging; her language dense and gritty, at home on the edge of things" - Linda France (editor, 'Sixty Women Poets', Bloodaxe Books). "Salty, stony, fierce, loving, and sometimes sharp... Poems that will ruffle your feathers, full of acute glimpses of the underneath of things" - Julia Darling. "Edgy, elemental, tender, they help me to understand more about what it is I'm doing, being human" - Subhadassi.
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