Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 61
ISBN: 9781854114112
Publication date: February 28, 2006
Price: £7.99
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Shortlisted for the Forward Prize 2006
Kate Bingham’s second collection, Quicksand Beach, will please fans of her fiction and of her first book of poems, Cohabitation. She has a beautifully poised natural tone composed of intelligence and a slightly subversive sense of humour, and captures her subjects with precision and grace.
These subjects are often domestic: family, friends, childhood memories, visits, walks, meals… Childhood, both the author’s and that of her own children, features often. A schoolday ‘craze’ for fountain pens prompts an affectionate memory of a younger self, watching ‘the tip of a new pen touch its first white sheet’. Bingham’s work is both subtle and accessible, a rare commodity in a poet. She can be gentle, passionate, half-mocking and very funny.
Kate Bingham
Kate Bingham lives in London where she works as a poet and filmmaker. She has published three collections of poetry for Seren: Cohabitation, Quicksand Beach (shortlisted for the 2006 Forward Prize for Best First Collection) and Infragreen. Her poem ‘On Highgate Hill’ was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2010. Educated at Oxford, she is also the author of two novels, Mummy’s Legs and Slipstream. In 1996 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. www.katebingham.com
