Flood

By Clare Shaw

The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the country submerged, including her home town. Flood offers an eye-witness account of those events, from rainfall to rescue, but ripples out from there. Intimately interwoven with the breakdown of a relationship, flooding serves as a powerful metaphor for wider experiences of loss, destruction and recovery. Testifying equally to the forces that destroy us and save us, flood runs through the book in different forms - bereavement and trauma, the Savile scandal, life in an asylum. Yet ultimately, this is a story of one life as it is unraveled and rebuilt, written from the heart and from the North, in a language as dangerous and sustaining as water. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780374208
• ISBN13: 9781780374208
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"