… is the title of Ulverston-based poet Gill Nicholson’s first poetry collection, deservedly praised by fellow Cumbrian poet M R Peacocke, who writes:
“Gill Nicholson writes about in-between states: she is ‘a woman who embraces dusk.’ The poems slip between light and dark, youth and age, past and present, what’s felt and what’s seen, without needing to urge the reader to take the point. At its best, there is an effortlessnness in the writing which is rare. When you read that ‘silence condenses over the tarn’, or that snow is ‘enough to smother currant bushes’, you are there at once in the place and the moment, listening.”
Gill is an organiser of the regular A Poem and A Pint events in Ulverston and a member of Brewery Poets (Kendal), 4th Monday Poets (Ulverston) and Barrow Writers. Naming Dusk in Dead Languages is published by Handstand Books and is available from Handstand Press, East Banks, Dent, Sedbergh LA10 5QT for £10 including postage, or from Gill herself at 7 Mayfield Road, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0DU.
For more information, and to sample some poems, visit Gill’s website at www.gillnicholson.co.uk
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#1 by Moey Charlesworth on March 26, 2010 - 8:41 pm
Gill’s poems are a delight to read, to absorb, and ponder. They flow with thoughts, presenting concepts of human nature.
I highly recommend this book of poems.
#2 by Antony Christie on March 26, 2010 - 9:16 pm
‘Naming Dusk in Dead Languages’ is rich in textures, in colours, is finely tuned to both sense impressions and the intricacies of thought. It makes you see and feel with greater intensity the everyday and the more exotic. It is particularly effective in exploring personality through description, actions and a few well chosen spoken words. An entertaining and at times unsettling read. Highly recommended.