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Bear Paperback – 25 May 2017

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The lively 'bears' in this playful and poignant collection will surprise you on every page. They are poems of love and death, life, loss and grief. The ephemera of popular culture is used to confront mortality, and you'll be transported from the British Library to the Alps to the International Space Station, along with a vibrant cast of Vikings, videogames and Angela Lansbury. From the ludicrous to the domestic, these profound, wry and very real bears affirm that hope may be found even in our darkest moments.

Chrissy Williams has published several pamphlets, one of which was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Bear was her first book-length collection. It was followed in 2021 by Low.
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    64 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bloodaxe Books Ltd
  4. Publication date
    25 May 2017
  5. Dimensions
    13.72 x 0.76 x 21.34 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1780373325
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1780373324
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'In her inventive, goofy, oddly moving debut, this poet hears a mysterious voice that "exists to put bears in your head". It'll put them in yours, too.' - The Daily Telegraph (Christmas Books 2017)

'The collection is a menagerie full of animals and games and experiments...The madness and plurality of modern life, and of being alive at all, pulses through these poems – but the collection seems to lean into it, being fixed very firmly in the world.' - Oxford Poetry Library on Bear, Book of the Month for August 2021

'There is a profundity and care of phrasing here which is completely persuasive. The interest in the unknown runs through the volume from ghost websites to distant galaxies. A single-sentence prose poem ['Four Hours Away'] epitomises Bear's sense of wonder and the rare combination of wit and sensitivity that is the hallmark of Williams's style.' --Tim Dooley, The Poetry Review

'Chrissy Williams is my new favourite poet. These poems are as close and intimate as a bear breathing down your neck, about to take you in its arms or tear you limb from limb; as strange and unexpected as a bear playing the piano and as beautiful and inexplicable as love.' --Luke Kennard

'In spite of its almost absurdist character and apparent playfulness, Chrissy Williams's Bear is a collection of poems that deal with all that is most serious in human life. From start to finish, these wonderfully various, entertaining and original poems speak the language of compassion, intimacy and faith.' --Annie Freud

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Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor living in London. Her father is English, her mother is Italian, and she was raised in Devon. She has published six pamphlets: Flying into the Bear (HappenStance Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards, and Epigraphs (if p then q, 2014) was featured on Radio 3's The Verb. Her poems and critical writing have appeared in various magazines, including The Poetry Review and Poetry London. She edited an anthology called Over the Line: An Introduction to Poetry Comics (Sidekick Books, 2015) and runs regular poetry comics workshops. She is Director of the annual Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair and currently works as a comics editor. Her first book-length collection, Bear, was published by Bloodaxe in 2017, followed by her second book-length collection, Low, in 2021.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloodaxe Books Ltd (25 May 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1780373325
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1780373324
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.72 x 0.76 x 21.34 cm
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Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor based in London. Her work has been featured by BBC television and radio, and her first poetry collection BEAR (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) was one of the Telegraph’s 50 Best Books of the Year.

The author of numerous poetry pamphlets, her work has been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award, and published in many magazines and anthologies including Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry London and Salt’s Best British Poetry series. Her second book-length collection, LOW, is published by Bloodaxe in 2021.

She is editor of the online poetry journal PERVERSE, and previously worked both at the National Poetry Library and as Director of the Poetry Book Fair. She is also an improviser and edits comics, including the New York Times bestselling The Wicked + The Divine.

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