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After Babel
After Babel, Christine Webb s debut collection, is now in its third printing and a new second edition. Precise, compassionate and gracious, the collection moves from astute to poignant with seeming ease, always bringing depth and new insight.After Babel shows Christine Webb s humour and humanity. These poems are witty, heart-warming and, occasionally, heart-breaking. A fresh new voice. -- Jackie Kay
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Published August 1, 2004
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April 10, 2022
Real poetry by a real poet - one can't always say that about a volume of poetry. Here are beautiful word cameos, limpid and glowing, bringing to vividly life not only the poet's parents, aunts and partner, but also giving imagined voice to women from long ago - Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, Martha, sister of Mary who 'chose the better part', the unnamed sister of the prodigal son, Mary Magdalen, and the mythological Pandora.
The title poem, imagining the birth of different languages after the building of the Tower of Babel, brings all the others together as these are, by and large, all poems about language, giving new voice to forgotten experiences - and gives the final poem 'Nominal Aphasia' (about the condition in which some words are lost to the brain) all the more pathos.
Wonderful words.
The title poem, imagining the birth of different languages after the building of the Tower of Babel, brings all the others together as these are, by and large, all poems about language, giving new voice to forgotten experiences - and gives the final poem 'Nominal Aphasia' (about the condition in which some words are lost to the brain) all the more pathos.
Wonderful words.
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