Jean Sprackland ist eine Dichterin und Schriftstellerin, deren Werk sich durch seine tiefe Auseinandersetzung mit der natürlichen Welt und menschlichen Erfahrung auszeichnet. Ihre Poesie erforscht oft die komplexen Verbindungen zwischen dem inneren Leben und der äußeren Umgebung und verwendet präzise Sprache und eindringliche Bilder. Durch ihr Schreiben versucht sie, flüchtige Momente einzufangen und die in der alltäglichen Existenz liegende Schönheit zu enthüllen. Ihre Prosa wird für ihre unerschrockene Ehrlichkeit und ihre Fähigkeit, tiefe emotionale Reaktionen bei den Lesern hervorzurufen, gelobt.
Yet they also reflect their living community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are losing our sense of connection to the dead. Jean Sprackland - the prize-winning poet and author of Strands - travels back through her life, revisiting her once local graveyards.
Exploring themes of loss and obsession, this collection intertwines stories from three authors, each with a distinct setting. Jean Sprackland delves into the dreams of characters amidst the dunes and fairgrounds of Southport. Tim Cooke's narratives unfold in a decaying tower block in south Manchester, capturing the claustrophobic lives of its inhabitants. Meanwhile, Sean O'Brien presents voices of lost souls navigating the libraries and bars of Tyneside, creating a rich tapestry of interconnected lives and experiences.
Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth.
For every object left emptied of significance, bereft, Jean Sprackland shows us another that is charged and radiant with possibility - the possibility of miracles.
Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner.
Some enquire into the natural world and our human place in it, by investigating hidden worlds within worlds: oak-apples, aphid-farms, firewood teeming with small life.