Where are my Window Songs — Patricia Helen Wooldridge
ISBN: 9781788641951
£10.99
Where are my Window Songs? has not a word out of place. The phrases are limpid and shimmer with sensory details so that we encounter places, creatures and persona of the poet as though in the flesh, meaning and metaphor held in the thingness of this carefully and beautifully drawn world. The natural world, memory, how we journey through life find form in language that is apparently simple, but always holds layers and depths. The poetry here is immersive and questioning, elegant and always perspective-altering, gently powerful and bears reading again and again.
Winner of the best poetry book, 2024, Rubery Book Award, of the Cinnamon pamphlet award and twice winner of the Literature Award, Where are my Window Songs? is Patricia Helen Wooldridge’s writing a the height of her power.
Author biography
Patricia Helen Wooldridge lives in Hampshire and is inspired by walking, bird watching and working on her allotment. She studied English Literature at London University and has a doctorate in creative writing. In the past she has taught English in schools and more recently creative writing to undergraduate students. Her work has been placed in a variety of poetry competitions and has appeared in poetry journals and competition anthologies. Most notably she received a commendation in the National Poetry Competition 2013 and in 2016 she was awarded first prize in the Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition. Her collection, Sea Poetics won the Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Prize in 2017 and her pamphlet, Being won the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Award in 2020. Patricia’s previous collection was Daughter. Out in the Field won the 2022 Cinnamon Literature Award and was winner of the 2024 Rubery Book Award, poetry category.