Liverpool Poetry Cafe - Rebecca Goss

Contact: 01517025324

Thursday 26th September, 7.30-9.30pm at The Bluecoat

The launch of Rebeca Goss' new collection Her Birth, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

Poet Rebecca Goss lived in Liverpool for twenty years, before returning earlier this year to Suffolk, the county where she grew up. Her poems have been published widely and won many prizes. Her first collection The Anatomy of Structures was published by Flambard Press in 2010. She returns to Liverpool to read from her second collection, Her Birth (Carcanet/Northern House), shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection.

Her Birth is a book-length sequence of poems about Goss’s daughter Ella, born in 2007 and diagnosed with Severe Ebstein’s Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Rebecca 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’.

'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

Tickets £3 / £2 (concessions) -
0151 702 5324

Price: £3.00 / £2.00

Time: 730pm