Dazzle Ship
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Exploring interactions of the natural world in the light of human relationships, Isabel Galleymore’s first collection of poems move between the loving, the symbiotic and the parasitic. Metaphor commands these connections, bringing the seemingly inanimate and peripheral to centre stage. Whether focusing upon a seed, sweet pea, sea anemone or barnacle, these intimate encounters address the pleasures and perils of finding likeness between the domestic and the wild. Dazzle Ship introduces a vital new voice in contemporary poetry and confirms that the everyday is indeed strange.
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Exploring interactions of the natural world in the light of human relationships, Isabel Galleymore’s first collection of poems move between the loving, the symbiotic and the parasitic. Metaphor commands these connections, bringing the seemingly inanimate and peripheral to centre stage. Whether focusing upon a seed, sweet pea, sea anemone or barnacle, these intimate encounters address the pleasures and perils of finding likeness between the domestic and the wild. Dazzle Ship introduces a vital new voice in contemporary poetry and confirms that the everyday is indeed strange.
Cracked Walnut and Cup
The cracked walnut
beside the porcelain cup
is not a porcelain walnut
and a cracked cup
but as she who finds
her lover’s words in her mouth
and their friends who discover
their faces alike
the walnut shell seems
another drinking vessel
and the cup appears
ever more breakable.
Published: 01 November 2014
ISBN: 978 1 905208 28 9
Pages: 34
“Quiet, assured, attentive, tender, witty and wonderfully surprising poems. A first pamphlet by Isabel Galleymore that I wish I’d published.”
Michael Laskey
“At once hair-fine and resolute, these poems are filled with the quiet nuances of intimacy, hinting deftly at the moments and gestures that are vital to our most treasured relationships. The poems in this pamphlet show both promise and achievement.”
Robert Crawford
“Isabel Galleymore’s assured and refreshing poems skilfully illuminate the interconnectedness of things, from the subtle dependences within relationships, to the quiet discoveries mirrored within the natural world. Language and form are purposefully rendered with a mindful and humble precision.”
Saradha Soobrayen
Isabel Galleymore’s first collection, Significant Other (Carcanet), won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020 and her second collection, Baby Schema (Carcanet) was a PBS Recommendation in 2024.
