Carrie Etter
Richard Georges' Make Us All Islands (Shearsman, 2017)
I'm happy to say that this impressive debut has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection. Here are some favourite...
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Carrie Etter
- Jun 19, 2017
- 1 min
Scar reviewed in Poetry London and on Santa Fe public radio
I'm surprised and delighted my chapbook, Scar, which came out a year ago this month, is still going strong, with a new review in Poetry...
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Carrie Etter
- Jun 12, 2017
- 1 min
Married!
My partner of seven years, Trevor Lillistone, and I married at the Bath Register Office on Saturday, 10 June. It was followed by a...
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Carrie Etter
- May 12, 2017
- 1 min
An appreciative new review of Scar in Dundee University Review of the Arts
Jo Hastie has composed a thorough and appreciative review of Scar now up on the DURA website here. I was especially glad to see Hastie...
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Carrie Etter
- May 8, 2017
- 1 min
Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours (Cape, 2000)
I tend to devote these posts of favourite passages from contemporary poetry collections to poets I suppose underknown--which is to say...
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Carrie Etter
- May 6, 2017
- 1 min
On the Horizon: The Weather in Normal (Book 4!)
Roughly a year from now Seren Books will publish my fourth collection of poems, The Weather in Normal. Each of my books has been quite...
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Carrie Etter
- Apr 30, 2017
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo all wrapped up!
I'm delighted to say I managed over 30 poems in 30 days. Those are drafts, not finished poems, of course, but it's felt good to focus...
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Carrie Etter
- Apr 25, 2017
- 1 min
R.I.P. Bernadine Marie Meeker Etter, 30 July 1945-29 July 2011
In the month I stayed in my childhood home following my mother's death, going through thousands of unorganised papers, largely looking...
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Carrie Etter
- Apr 11, 2017
- 2 min
Adoption Matters
Today my birthfather invited my partner and I to visit him in South Carolina when we have our second wedding reception in Illinois in...
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Carrie Etter
- Apr 9, 2017
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo, Day 9
It's 10:54 p.m. on the ninth day of drafting at least a poem a day, and I've just finished a draft of a short poem juxtaposing the...
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Carrie Etter
- Mar 29, 2017
- 1 min
Judging poetry competitions
I think the reason I enjoy judging poetry competitions and reviewing contemporary poetry collections is the same: to celebrate quality...
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Carrie Etter
- Mar 27, 2017
- 1 min
Mothers' Days, UK and US
One of the unexpected trials of living in the UK has been that it presents me with an extra mothers' day to endure: they have one in...
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Carrie Etter
- Mar 22, 2017
- 3 min
National Poetry Month and NaPoWriMo
As spring break falls entirely within April this year, I thought I would try writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month (in the US,...
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Carrie Etter
- Mar 14, 2017
- 2 min
What Can Political Poetry Do?
After years of attending AWP (the Associated Writing Programs' annual conference--Brits, imagine 11,000 writers in one U.S. city for...
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Carrie Etter
- Mar 5, 2017
- 2 min
R. A. Villanueva's Reliquaria (U. Nebraska, 2014)
Some favourite passages from this lush first collection: I kneel beside priests burning camphor upon the ghats, brace this eldest son for...
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Carrie Etter
- Feb 15, 2017
- 1 min
And when you think all the words that will be said about it have been said....
Helena Nelson has reviewed Scar for Sphinx here (and I'm ecstatic).... #HelenaNelson #Sphinx #chapbook #Scar #ShearsmanBooks
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Carrie Etter
- Feb 6, 2017
- 1 min
Another rave review of Scar
Katy Lewis Hood, a postgraduate student interested in women's contemporary poetry and the anthropocene (as I learned from her blog),...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 28, 2017
- 1 min
Forms of failure
On 3 January, I received an email from my university unexpectedly increasing my workload significantly for second semester. I still hoped...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 18, 2017
- 1 min
Scar reviewed in PN Review
In a round-up of six chapbooks in the latest PN Review, Alison Brackenbury gives Scar an absolutely superlative review, and I'm thrilled....
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 16, 2017
- 2 min
The poet waits
It seems that much of my life as a poet has involved waiting. First it's waiting for responses to submissions to magazines (and many US...
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