![]() ![]() They are made of a silicate glass of a high thermal expansion coefficient and have the shape of a tadpole. I came as close to hearing the 'Pearl' poet's voice as I am ever likely to be.' - Stella Halkyard, PN Review 'Draycott's version is compellingly human.Prince Rupert's drops (PRDs), also known as Batavian tears, have been in existence since the early 17th century. 'When Jane Draycott read, for the first time, sections of her exquisitely modulated translation of the 'Pearl' poem, its echoing character seemed to transport me from one cultural space to another. Draycott has carried over into our tamer, tired world a strong, strange sense of how original, gorgeous and natural this old poem can be.' - David Morley, Poetry Review 'The language is marvellously modulated yet stirringly wild. I came as close to hearing the 'Pearl' poet's voice as I am ever likely to be.' - Stella Halkyard, PN Review 'Draycott's version is compellingly human.' 'Draycott's version is compellingly human.' Draycott has carried over into our tamer, tired world a strong, strange sense of how original, gorgeous and natural this old poem can be.' In fact The Night Tree is the finest collection I've read for ages.' 'I've waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline. Lachlan Mackinnon, Times Literary Supplement Penelope Shuttle, Manhattan Review 'When Jane Draycott read, for the first time, sections of her exquisitely modulated translation of the 'Pearl' poem, its echoing character seemed to transport me from one cultural space to another. 'Her searching curiosity and wonderful assurance make her an impeccable and central poetic intelligence.' The dream world, enticing and enlightening as he might have it to be, proves no more accommodating than our own.' Homeliness is pushed, just, over to Freud's unhomely conclusions. 'Draycott uses the language of dreams to make the quotidian illusionary, like a vapour captured in lexicon. Praise for Jane Draycott 'A host of subtle and spellbinding effects, testament to Dryacott's skill as a poet as well as her grasp of grief's physcological realities' She now works in adult education and lives in Oxfordshire. Jane Draycott has lived and taught in London, Strasbourg and Tanzania, and was for a while co-director of a small theatre company, Four Corners. ![]() She is also the co-author of Christina the Astonishing (Two Rivers Press, 1998). It follows a pamphlet, No Theatre, that was a first-stage winner of the Poetry Business Competition (1996) and was most unusually shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 1997. This is Jane Draycott's first collection of poems. This tension - between the present beauty and the sense of inevitable loss inherent in the things we most admire - is a key to many of the poems in Jane Draycott's work, particularly to the long central poem 'Braving the Dark', written after her brother's death from AIDS at the age of 30. ' Prince Rupert's drop', a rare curiosity of the glass-making process, is a tear of glass at once immensely resilient yet spectacularly fragile, exploding dramatically when shattered. ![]()
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