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Lintel
By Gillian Allnutt

Lintel Gillian Allnutt

Gillian Allnutt's Lintel gives us poems of the threshold; poems that stand at the edge, looking back as well as forward; poems that arise out of known, imagined and imaginary places, such as the landscape of Tabitha and Lintel (somewhere between Haworth and the Holy Land). They show the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness in which the arational is decried as irrational.

But Gillian Allnutt's poems are also ambivalent in their approach to history, embracing change where the past needs to be broken with while at the same time holding on to what needs to be salvaged from the wreckage. As the wild girl Lintel, serving in the convent, says: 'It'll be as if I'd brought the breakers in with me.'

'Her poems are acute meditations' - David Hart

'I cannot state this strongly enough: if you only buy one collection in 2001, make sure it's this. Absolutely and without exaggeration, superb' - Lisa Mathews, Mslexia

'I urge you, in this age of brash outwardness, to read her' - Adam Thorpe, Observer

'There is immense craftsmanship in this paring-down of complex apprehensions, this translation of fugitive visions into exact words. She knows what not to say, understands precisely how far to trust the reader. It's not an easy. feet-on-the-mantelpiece read: Allnutt says difficult things so simply we can hardly understand them. But Lintel is a very rewarding experience . . . Buy the book. You won't regret it.' - R.V. Bailey, Envoi.


£7.95  Paperback 
1 85224 547 6.  64pp.  2001. 
Subjects:  Avantgarde/ExperimentalNature/EnvironmentReligious/SpiritualWomen

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Other books by Gillian Allnutt:
Blackthorn
How the Bicycle Shone
Nantucket and the Angel
Sojourner
 
 
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