{"title":"Carrie Etter","description":"Originally from Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter spent thirteen years in southern California before moving to England in 2001, where she is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her poems have appeared widely in the US and UK in such journals as \u003cem\u003eAufgabe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePN Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShearsman\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStand\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous other journals. Her first collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Tethers\u003c\/em\u003e, was published to wide critical acclaim in 2009 (Seren Books), and the anthology she edited, \u003cem\u003eInfinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (Shearsman Books), in 2010. Her second collection, \u003cem\u003eDivining for Starters\u003c\/em\u003e, will be published by Shearsman in February 2011.\n\nPoetry by Carrie Etter from Seren Books:\n\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PO_HTzQPfIw[\/youtube]","products":[{"product_id":"poetry-wales-winter-201011","title":"Poetry Wales - Winter 2010\/11","description":"\u003cb\u003eFeatures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre Joris and Jean Portante - Whales, Ghosts and Nomads: a Dialogue on Multilingual Poetry\u003cbr\u003eRichard Gwyn - The Green Whale of Summer: Reflections on Latin American Poetry, Part 1\u003cbr\u003eTiffany Atkinson - The Uses of Difficulty: writing in the margins of W.S. 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By turns wry, celebratory, and pensive, the poems roam from an imaginary village to Manhattan, the southwestern U.S., London, the Czech Republic, and Etter's homeland, the Illinois prairie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a lyric intensity born of compression and linguistic precision, the travels in \u003ci\u003eThe Tethers\u003c\/i\u003e are as much psychological as physical, exploring the life of the mind as it engages with delight and despair, pleasure and hardship, in an unusually mature first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Many contemporary poets blow away in the gale of nihil and nonsense that life is becoming, but some still try to weather it – Carrie Etter is one of the few to have found strong roots to cling to, and one of the very few in whose lines one can discern the flesh-and-blood figure of a witness wholly alive, alert to the evidence, unsparing but unjudging, getting it down by heart. Sorrowing, glad, graceful, \u003ci\u003eThe Tethers\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and significant debut.\" \u003cbr\u003eGlyn Maxwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Tethers\u003c\/i\u003e is full of highly intelligent, often finely cadenced and in the best sense measured poetry. Carrie Etter deftly fuses accents of modern America and England with a strong sense of the Classics. Nuanced, lyrical, occasionally humorous, these poems reveal time after time an acute sense of 'the rise and fall of what we cannot moor'.\" \u003cbr\u003eRobert Crawford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Terse, wry, discreetly metaphysical, Carrie Etter's poems have the economy of good jokes. 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