In the Quaker Hotel

by Helen Tookey

In the title poem, the speaker sits at the window of a small hotel room. The room is a holding zone, a temporary stopping-place between memory and possibility. In the Quaker Hotel is full of questions about the world. Rooted in nature, the poems are fearful for it. They move out through identifiable landscapes (Merseyside, north Wales, Nova Scotia, southern France) to off-kilter, tilted places beyond our immediate reality. We are temporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 180017182X
• ISBN13: 9781800171824
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 110 Pages