{"title":"Susan Utting","description":"Peterloo Poetry Prize winner Susan Utting was selected for the \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper’s best love poem prize in February 2010. Her last collection, \u003cem\u003eHouses Without Walls\u003c\/em\u003e (Two Rivers Press, 2006), was featured in the \u003cem\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e, with a poem from the collection included in the Best Single Poem category of \u003cem\u003eThe Forward Book of Poetry 2007\u003c\/em\u003e.\n \nSusan Utting has won many awards, including a Poetry Business Prize for the pamphlet \u003cem\u003eSomething Small is Missing\u003c\/em\u003e (Smith\/Doorstop 1999). As well as the Peterloo Prize, she has won the Berkshire Poetry Prize, the Hurry Poetry Prize and was a winner in the Academi Cardiff International. Her first full collection, \u003cem\u003eStriptease\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2001 by Smith\/Doorstop.\n \nSusan is the founder of Reading’s Poets’ Café, a member of Thin Raft Poets and Late Shift Poetry Ensemble. She has read and performed her poetry at arts venues and festivals including Edinburgh, StAnza at St Andrew’s, Ledbury, and for the Poetry Trust at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Her third full collection of poetry is \u003cem\u003eFair’s Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Two Rivers Press in 2012.\n","products":[{"product_id":"the-north-42","title":"The North 42","description":"'How content I shall be in The North to which I sail!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorth 42 is the inaugural issue from our new location in Bank Street, Sheffield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e64 poems by 42 poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison Brackenbury on Philip Larkin\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Fisher on George Mackay Brown\u003cbr\u003eArticles, featured poets, Reviews.","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040754780,"sku":"98050269 9885","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_ddbbf189-214b-42b2-b7be-ad35a0c81426.jpeg?v=1752236640"},{"product_id":"the-north-45","title":"The North 45","description":"Includes poetry from the likes of Simon Armitage, Elma Mitchell, George Szirtes, Lucille Clifton and Allison McVety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Killick reviewing Patrick McGuinness, Sinead Morrissey and Paula Meehan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarole Bromley reviewing Pam Thompson, Sarah Corbett and Simon Armitage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry Chambers and Cliff Yates in 'Poets I Go Back To'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiver Wolton and Christy Ducker in 'Blind Criticism'.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040766160,"sku":"22067-0269-9885","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_7ab1324d-1204-41d9-bf41-dec90d42e108.jpeg?v=1752237113"},{"product_id":"the-colour-of-rain","title":"The Colour of Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Colour of Rain is Susan Utting’s fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new-found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it. She ‘becomes’ a Willow Sister, joins an avenue of poplars, has conversations with bees. And while nature is joyfully celebrated, poems also lament its losses: felled trees. disappearing species, Rachel Carson’s all too present ‘Silent Spring’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poet’s trademark musicality and dancing rhythms are in evidence throughout the collection’s four sections. Her fascination with language, its sounds and resonances, demonstrate reviewer Philip Gross’s comment that ‘Utting unashamedly loves language, and it seems to love her back.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Rivers Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47484808233249,"sku":"9781915048158","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/susan-utting\/john-killick.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}