Tessitura

by Julie Sampson

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Tessitura, Italian 'texture', borrows a musical conceptual term, denoting the textural sweep of melodic contour-kind of safe-space-for a singer or instrumentalist. This collection is intended as a corresponding writerly-space in which I bring together various drifts of work, assemble them into poetry's visual equivalence of music's soundscape. The poems are grounded-and sometimes take flight from-my comfort-zone roots in the South-West of England-its continuity of personal ancestors and especially its successive memory chain of often forgotten women writers, several of whom make their presence known in the central sequence 'Devon women; Lost W/rites'.
  • ISBN13 9781848612396
  • Publish Date 15 October 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Shearsman Books
  • Edition 1
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 88
  • Language English