Ground Water

Matthew Hollis

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Bloodaxe Books
29 January 2004

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

In this sparkling debut, Matthew Hollis immerses us in the undercurrents of our lives. Love and loss are buoyed by a house full of milk, an orchard underwater, the laws of walking on water. Rainwater, floodwater, flux - the liquid landscapes which shift relentlessly in Ground Water - threaten and comfort by turns. Matthew Hollis's poems are brimming with courage in adversity as well as the promise of renewal, culminating in a powerful sequence about a father's struggle with terminal illness. Ground Water is a startling first collection from a remarkable new poet.

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (the first time for a poetry book), Whitbread Poetry Award and Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

By: Matthew Hollis
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 113g
ISBN: 9781852246570
ISBN 10: 185224657X
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 29 January 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mathew Hollis was born in 1971 in Norwich. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999, and published a pamphlet The Boy On The Edge Of Happiness. His co-editor of 101 poems Against war (Faber, 2003) and strong words:mordern poets on mordern poetry (Bloodaxe 2000), and works as an editor at Faber & Faber. Ground Water is his first full length collection.

Reviews for Ground Water

An impressive debut...the metaphorical language is finely judged, touching both the landscapes and the people crawling its surface with a shrewd but never less than sympathetic gaze. -- D.J.Taylor * Guardian * Matthew Hollis shows an impressive confidence in the promptings of the imagination and no desire at all to ingratiate himself. Craft, not attitude, is what counts. Poems are sometimes called quiet when really they're inaudible. His are genuinely quiet, drawing in the ear to enjoy, for example, his artful rendering in slowed folk-song rhythm of the terror and excitement of floods. -- Seab O'Brien * Sunday Times *