Of Heads & Hearts - Hamilton, Lucy
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"There is nobody writing prose poetry in any way close to Lucy Hamilton's. Of Heads & Hearts is an intricate and rich collection that riffs on the interconnectedness of human relationships with the deft movements of a musical score. Here is a poet writing at the height of her talent using precise and controlled language to build toward a cumulative collage of characters, threads and associations all in conversation with one another. Of Heads & Hearts becomes more and more rewarding with each re-reading, most notably the utter ache at the heart of the 'Requiem for the Engineer' sequence."…mehr

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"There is nobody writing prose poetry in any way close to Lucy Hamilton's. Of Heads & Hearts is an intricate and rich collection that riffs on the interconnectedness of human relationships with the deft movements of a musical score. Here is a poet writing at the height of her talent using precise and controlled language to build toward a cumulative collage of characters, threads and associations all in conversation with one another. Of Heads & Hearts becomes more and more rewarding with each re-reading, most notably the utter ache at the heart of the 'Requiem for the Engineer' sequence." -Kaddy Benyon "With each new story, this collection extends its reach and increases its hold on the reader. The work of the poet here is not to claim authority over a series of elusive moments but to curate their collection. Eclectic, absorbing, tender and funny, the poems testify to the mind's restlessness and its inventive responses to the world." -Lucy Sheerman
Autorenporträt
Lucy Hamilton grew up in Norfok, England with her French mother and Liverpudlian father, the youngest of six children. She lived in Paris in her late teens before returning to study in Birmingham. She began a career in secondary school teaching in London (Whitechapel and Brixton) and worked in schools across the UK. Most recently she taught English as an Alternative Language to Chinese and South Korean boarding students at Ashford School, Kent. She has run poetry workshops for the Poetry School and the University of Cambridge.She was joint-winner of the Poetry School Award in 2007 and since then has published a pamphlet, Sonnets for my Mother (Hearing Eye, 2009), and two collections of prose poems with Shearsman Books. Stalker (2012) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and a sequence, 'Blood-Letting' from Of Heads & Hearts (2018), was Highly Commended in the Forward Book of Poetry 2019. The poem 'Messengers', from her work-in-progress 'Travelling with the I Ching', won First Prize in the SL Artemis poetry competition, 2020.Lucy co-edited Long Poem Magazine from its inception in 2008 until 2018. Since 2015 she has worked as a freelance writer, editor, poet, organiser and coordinator for Cam Rivers Publishing and the annual Xu Zhimo Poetry & Arts Festival, a UK-China partnership based at King's College Cambridge and Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. In this capacity she has contributed to several work residencies in Sichuan, Jiangxi, and elsewhere in China.She was awarded the Xu Zhimo Lifelong Achievement Award 2023.