Join us for an author event with poet Rebecca Goss, as part
of our annual Wild Reads promotion! Rebecca will be talking to us about
her career so far and her book, Latch. The event will include a
reading and the opportunity for the audience to ask Rebecca questions.
Tickets are £5.00 each. Price includes refreshments.
Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk.
Her first full-length collection, The Anatomy of Structures, was
published by Flambard Press in 2010. Her second collection, Her Birth(Carcanet/Northern
House, 2013), was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection,
won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and in 2015 was
shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature.
Her second pamphlet Carousel, a collaboration with the
photographer Chris Routledge, was published by Guillemot Press in 2018.
Rebecca’s third full-length collection, Girl, was published with Carcanet/Northern House in
2019 and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019 and Highly Commended
in the Forward Prizes, 2019.
She is the winner of the Sylvia Plath Prize 2022. Her latest collection, Latch, set in Suffolk, was
published with Carcanet in 2023. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff
University and a PhD by Publication from the University of East Anglia. She was
a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
2020-22 and at the University of Suffolk 2022-23.
About Latch
Rebecca Goss’ fourth and most ambitious
collection, Latch, is a study in the act of returning. It is about
reconnecting to a place, Suffolk, and understanding what it once held, and what
it now holds for a woman and her family. These poems unearth the deep, lasting
attachments people have with the East Anglian countryside, gathering voices of
labour, love, and loss with compelling particularity. The book is various,
unpredictable: memory and magic interweave, secrets tangle with myth. As in her
earlier books, Goss again draws on her distinctive ability to plough difficult,
emotional terrain. Here is an anatomy of marriage, her parents’ and her
own, while the natural world becomes an arena for the emotional push and pull
that exists between mothers and daughters.
The return to a childhood home recalls young siblings
retreating into nature as they steer the adult lives that disintegrate around
them. Readers will find themselves beckoned to barns, fields, weirs, to
experience both refuge and disturbance: we are shown a county’s stars, and why
a poet needed to return to live under them.
Borrow a copy of Latch from the Suffolk Libraries catalogue.
