The Whole & Rain-domed Universe

by Colette Bryce

Overview

The Whole&Rain-domed Universe is Colette Bryce's much-anticipated follow-up to Self-Portrait in the Dark. The book presents the reader with an extraordinarily clear-eyed, vivid and sometimes disturbing account of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, with many ghosts both raised and laid to rest. The Whole&Rain-domed Universe is a riveting poetic document of the time; Bryce turns her clear, singing line to darker ends than she has before, describing not just the warmth and eccentricity of family and the claustrophobia of home-life, but also the atmosphere of suspicion, and the real and present threat of terrible violence. Bryce is one of the most widely acclaimed poets of the post-Heaney generation, and this is her most directly personal and compelling work to date.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447263463
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	09/11/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	256 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Colette Bryce was born in Derry in 1970, and has lived in England, Spain and Scotland.

Colette Bryce was born in Derry in 1970. After studying in England, she settled in London for some years where she received an Eric Gregory Award in 1995 and won the National Poetry Competition in 2003. She has published four poetry collections with Picador, most recently The Whole&Rain-domed Universe (2014), recipient of a Christopher Ewart-Biggs Award in memory of Seamus Heaney. She has held literary fellowships at various universities in the UK, Ireland and the US, and currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne where she works as a freelance writer and editor. She received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry in 2010. Her Selected Poems was shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ Week. She was selected as one of Val McDermid's ten most exciting LGBTQI+ writers in the UK in association with the British Council in 2019.


www.colettebryce.com

Table of Contents

White 1

Derry 2

Re-entering the Egg 6

Hide-and-seek 8

Boredoom 9

The theatrical death of my maternal grandmother as revealed in a 1960s glitter globe 11

Heritance 12

A horse appears 13

The Analyst's Couch 15

Helicopters 16

North to the South 17

The Search 19

Magi 21

The Republicans 22

Don't speak to the Brits, just pretend they don't exist 23

Positions Prior to the Arrival of the Military 24

Hall Dream, Upended 25

The Brits 26

Your Grandmother's House 27

A Clan Gathering 29

Mammy Dozes 32

Magic Eye 33

A Library Book 35

Jean 36

A little girl I knew when she was my mother 37

Signature 39

A Simple Modern Hand 40

Asylum 45

Pisces 47

The Quiet Coach 49

Acknowledgements & Notes 51