{"title":"Books by Rebecca Goss","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781784107239","title":"Girl","description":"Shortlisted for the 2019 East Anglian Book (Poetry) AwardIn Girl, Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. From a woman struck by lightning to a baby who understands shadows, Goss navigates the real and the imagined with equal flair. At the heart of the collection is a distinctive, sensual series of poems responding to the work of the artist Alison Watt: the result is a fearless exploration of the female body and female desire.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304596189557,"sku":"9781784107239","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784107239_b5376310-5b92-442d-bb52-04704da29aa1.jpg?v=1786025905"},{"product_id":"9781800173217","title":"Latch","description":"Longlisted for the New Angle Prize for Literature 2025A London Review Bookshop Book of the YearRebecca Goss' fourth and most ambitious collection, Latch, is a study in the act of returning. It is about reconnecting to a place, Suffolk, and understanding what it once held, and what it now holds for a woman and her family. These poems unearth the deep, lasting attachments people have with the East Anglian countryside, gathering voices of labour, love, and loss with compelling particularity. The book is various, unpredictable: memory and magic interweave, secrets tangle with myth. As in her earlier books, Goss again draws on her distinctive ability to plough difficult, emotional terrain. Here is an anatomy of marriage, her parents' and her own, while the natural world becomes an arena for the emotional push and pull that exists between mothers and daughters. The return to a childhood home recalls young siblings retreating into nature as they steer the adult lives that disintegrate around them. Readers will find themselves beckoned to barns, fields, weirs, to experience both refuge and disturbance: we are shown a county's stars, and why a poet needed to return to live under them.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306609160565,"sku":"9781800173217","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800173217_1a5cd552-ca8f-4ecf-b73e-c7e1dbee8a82.jpg?v=1786026794"},{"product_id":"9781847772381","title":"Her Birth","description":"Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection               Shortlisted for the 2015 Warwick Prize for Writing               Selected for Next Generation Poets 2014                In 2007 Rebecca Goss’s newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein’s Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella’s birth, her short life and her death, and ending with the joys and complexities that come with the birth of another child. Goss navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss in poems that are spare, tender and haunting: ‘Going home, back down \/ the river road, will be a foreign route without her’.                  It must be at once the most painfully personal and the most restrained and sparsely written poetry collection of the year... It's poetry of witness. The language is simple; the images are simple; the feeling is all. It's feeling no one wants to have, and it is handled with immense grace.                  Katy Evans-Bush, Poetry London               Something close to a poetic journal, the poems are by turns meditativeand bewildered, uttered in the quietest of delicately weighted language, as if the failing child and the experience alike could not bear too much pressure or noise. What transformations there are, are tentative and quietly sustained.                  Jane Draycott, Canto               She [writes] with astonishing success, to which the key is a brilliant sparseness consistently adding up to more than the sum of its parts. Her linguistic tact and her judgement never falter...                  Lawrence Sail, Warwick Review               The poems have an almost unbearable beauty...                  Peter Kennedy, poetrywivenhoe               The poems in Her Birth unfold their story of love, loss and grief for a baby daughter with pared-down precision and scorching intensity.                  Helen Dunmore","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308326990197,"sku":"9781847772381","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847772381_4bd8e6c3-8270-432a-83b8-e43193b93e55.jpg?v=1788186137"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-rebecca-goss.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}