The language of now
Caldwell, Anne2026
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In The Language of Now, Anne Caldwell crafts prose poems rooted in a northern sense of place – bogs and backstreets, weather and wild margins – while the wider world warms, falters and changes. These pieces thrive on juxtaposition: illness alongside birdsong, childhood memory beside urban grit, the tenderness of connection shadowed by pandemic distance. Caldwell’s lines move with the down-to-earth cadence of prose and the lifted music of poetry, catching small beauties without looking away.Real and fairy-tale braid together; memoir slips into myth; humans transform into birds; language is lost, recovered, remade. As the title poem notes, ‘The language of now is short and full of gaps’ – and Caldwell turns those gaps into breathing space, where grief, humour and wonder can coexist. The result is intimate eco-poetics that feels both consoling and bracing, offering quiet resistance as it teaches us how to notice closely, again, right now.
Main title:
The language of now / Poetry by Anne Caldwell.
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Imprint:
Scarborough, United Kingdom : Valley Press, 2026
Collation:
76pp : Paperback / softback ; 198mm x 130mm x 7mm
ISBN:
9781915606815
Dewey class:
821.92 CAL
Language:
English
BRN:
1030219