Jean Sprackland je básnířka a spisovatelka, jejíž díla se vyznačují hlubokým vhledem do světa přírody a lidské zkušenosti. Její poezie často zkoumá propojení mezi vnitřním životem a vnějším prostředím, přičemž využívá precizní jazyk a silné obrazy. Prostřednictvím své tvorby se snaží zachytit pomíjivé okamžiky a odhalit krásu v každodenním životě. Její psaní je ceněno pro svou upřímnost a schopnost evokovat silné emoce u čtenářů.
Yet they also reflect their living community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are losing our sense of connection to the dead. Jean Sprackland - the prize-winning poet and author of Strands - travels back through her life, revisiting her once local graveyards.
Exploring themes of loss and obsession, this collection intertwines stories from three authors, each with a distinct setting. Jean Sprackland delves into the dreams of characters amidst the dunes and fairgrounds of Southport. Tim Cooke's narratives unfold in a decaying tower block in south Manchester, capturing the claustrophobic lives of its inhabitants. Meanwhile, Sean O'Brien presents voices of lost souls navigating the libraries and bars of Tyneside, creating a rich tapestry of interconnected lives and experiences.
Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth.
For every object left emptied of significance, bereft, Jean Sprackland shows us another that is charged and radiant with possibility - the possibility of miracles.
Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner.
Some enquire into the natural world and our human place in it, by investigating hidden worlds within worlds: oak-apples, aphid-farms, firewood teeming with small life.