Swimming Between Islands

Charlotte Eichler

ISBN 9781800171374

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 23rd February 2023

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 27th April 2023

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE DCF Poetry

‘Read Charlotte Eichler’s poems slowly [...] because they’re astonishing’

LAURA SCOTT

Sales Points

• Debut collection from a Yorkshire-based contributor to New Poetries VIII

• Eichler is a scholar of Old Norse and Viking literature, working for the International Medieval Bibliography at the University of Leeds

• Gathers previous work from her debut pamplet and New Poetries VIII, with a substantial collection of new poems

• The collection ventures into Northern islands, finding new ways of talking about connection, silences and belonging

• Eichler has an astonishing ability to write the natural world, and integrates the ecological perspective into poems which carefully absorb painful, family inheritances

About The Author

Charlotte Eichler was born in Hertfordshire and lives in West Yorkshire. Her debut pamphlet, Their Lunar Language, came out in 2018 with Valley Press. Her poems have appeared in publications including PN Review, The Scotsman, The Rialto, The Island Review, Stand and several Emma Press anthologies. In 2017/18 she was a Poetry London mentee with Vahni Capildeo. She holds a BA in English Literature and Russian and an MA in Norse and Viking Studies, and works for the International Medieval Bibliography at the University of Leeds.

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