Carrie Etter
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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Carrie Etter
- Jan 9, 2017
- 1 min
Denise Riley's Say Something Back (Picador, 2016), second selection
More favourite passages: As clouds swell to damply fill gaps in mountains, so in Illness we sense, solidly, our entrails expanding to...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 7, 2017
- 1 min
Denise Riley's Say Something Back (Picador, 2016), first selection
I've been relishing this book and include some of my favourite passages here, with a second selection to follow in a few days. Read from...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 5, 2017
- 1 min
A new year
The excitement of 2016 for my writing largely consisted of the publication of two pamphlets: Hometown (V. Press), a collection of flash...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 2, 2016
- 1 min
Good Reading: Stephen Burt's "Reading Yeats in the Age of Trump"
Frustrated by the result of the American election, as I am? Angry? Feeling impotent? Wondering about what or how to write now? Read...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 23, 2016
- 2 min
Vahni Capildeo's Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet, 2016)
Here are some favourite passages from this dense, rich collection: Had the ecstatic efficiency of its heart thumped to a stop? from "Fire...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 8, 2016
- 1 min
The end of imagined sons
I found him. I found my son, and he's not like anyone I conceived of in Imagined Sons. He's a smart, playful translator in Japan, and I'm...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 6, 2016
- 1 min
Em Strang's Bird-Woman (Shearsman, 2016)
Here are some of my favourite passages from this impressive debut collection by Scottish poet Em Strang: The sunlight is squeezing her,...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 2, 2016
- 4 min
The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2016 Shortlist: The Full Review
This summer The Guardian commissioned me to compose a review of the five books comprising the shortlist for the Felix Dennis Prize for...
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Carrie Etter
- Sep 26, 2016
- 1 min
Requiescat in Pace: Henry Etter, 26 September 1940-13 March 2009
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Carrie Etter
- Sep 23, 2016
- 1 min
Flashback Friday: "His Pantoum"
My father's birthday is on the 26th, and the day always reprises memories of both his life and death, 13 March 2009. I flew home to make...
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Carrie Etter
- Sep 16, 2016
- 1 min
Flashback Friday: "Veer, Oscillate, Rest"
I thought as an occasional series I'd post links to previously published online poems. Today it's a poem from one of my favourite...
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Carrie Etter
- Sep 15, 2016
- 1 min
Touring Scar
Until last year, I rarely wrote a poem over a page long. Now, my current manuscript, The Weather in Normal, has four poems of 3+ pages,...
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Carrie Etter
- Sep 9, 2016
- 1 min
Poetry and Pottery: A Collaboration
Almost as long as potter Trevor Lillistone has been my partner, people have asked us whether we've collaborated. That answer was no until...
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Carrie Etter
- Aug 7, 2016
- 1 min
Prior Park Landscape Garden, Bath
Looking down the park, Bath in the background.... The lovely covered stone bridge, a mother duck and her nine ducklings on the right bank...
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Carrie Etter
- Aug 1, 2016
- 1 min
An interview focusing on flash fiction and prose poetry
Jude Higgins, who runs the Bath Flash Fiction Award, interviewed me about flash fiction and prose poetry; the review can be read on the...
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Carrie Etter
- Jul 22, 2016
- 1 min
A podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library
While visiting Edinburgh, I recorded a podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library with the wonderfully appreciative and enthusiastic...
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Carrie Etter
- Jul 21, 2016
- 1 min
A new review of Hometown by Santino Prinzi
Santino Prinzi, I should explain, was a student in my Sudden Prose module at Bath Spa University two years ago and won that year's...
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Carrie Etter
- Jul 19, 2016
- 1 min
Puffins at the Farne Islands, July 2016
Trev and I took a wonderful boat trip out to Staple Island during breeding season (May to July) and were told there were 37,000 breeding...
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Carrie Etter
- Jul 14, 2016
- 1 min
Reality Street's last words
I've read and admired Reality Street books for years and became a "supporter subscriber" some years ago, receiving each year's round of...
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