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Where The Road Runs Out Gaia Holmes

Where The Road Runs Out By Gaia Holmes

Where The Road Runs Out by Gaia Holmes


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Summary

A third collection of poetry from Yorkshire poet Gaia Holmes. Where the Road Runs Out is a moving, and often witty, portrait of loss, isolation, and ultimately healing. Above all, it is a paean to the landscape, and the myths, magic and mysteries that lie just beneath the surface.

Where The Road Runs Out Summary

Where The Road Runs Out by Gaia Holmes

Gaia Holmes' third collection of poetry transports us to the edge of things: to remote, treeless islands, to dark, unfathomable mines, to the gaping maw of grief. With frailty and ferocity, these poems map out the strange absences left in our lives when a rupture occurs - like the sudden appearance of a sinkhole - threatening to pull everything else down with it. Where the Road Runs Out is a powerful and intimate portrait of loss, isolation, and ultimately healing. Above all, it is a paean to the landscape, and the myths, magic and mysteries that lie just beneath the surface.

Where The Road Runs Out Reviews

'Within 'Where the Road Runs Out' there is a magnificent meditation on the spaces that exist between father and daughter and what familiar places become without their presence. Humourous and heartbreaking, these poems will stay with me a long time.' - Sabrina Mahfouz (RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 judge); 'Gaia Holmes' collection is full of an energetic openness to all kinds of vivid feeling. These deft, satisfying poems probe the gaps in the world and the sadness at the edge of things, but are often ready to rush outside, to look and to breathe. Her poems unroll with a direct and inventive naturalness, certain of where they are going and always ready to take the reader with them in a tumble of unexpectedness.' - Judy Brown (author of 'Crowd Sensations' and 'Loudness'); 'Gaia Holmes's poems are meditations on evening fires, familial duty, where someone is 'definitely dying', where the outside comes in, the land and the natural world become an integral part of self, community and understanding grief. These poems made me light a candle, find another blanket, crave fresh bread, and send thoughts to my loved ones many miles away. - Jenna Clake (author of 'Fortune Cookie')

About Gaia Holmes

Gaia Holmes is a freelance writer and creative writing tutor who works with schools, universities, libraries and other community groups throughout the West Yorkshire region. She runs 'Igniting The Spark', a weekly writing workshop at Dean Clough, Halifax, and is the co-host of 'MUSE-LI', an online writing group. She has had three full length poetry collections published by Comma Press: Dr James Graham's Celestial Bed (2006) Lifting The Piano With One Hand(2013), Where The Road Runs Out (2018) and Tales from the Tachograph, a collaborative work with Winston Plowes (Calder Valley Poetry, 2017). She is currently turning her attention towards writing short stories.

Additional information

GOR009984752
9781910974452
1910974455
Where The Road Runs Out by Gaia Holmes
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Comma Poetry
20180906
108
Commended for The RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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