Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton Effortlessly immediate and contemporary

Effortlessly immediate and contemporary

’ – John McAuliffe

“Prynne and a Petoskey Stone” and “First and Last Opinions

Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2014

and a footballer’s sublime (if optimistic) pass to a teammate – these poems address the nature of the distances between us

Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton Effortlessly immediate and contemporaryTessa Berrings Folded Purse is a rigorous and playful study of the known world and its ultimately unknowable things. Within its folds, poems call to, sometimes quarrel with, each other as images (a warm spell, an outdoor cow) slip from one poem to another. Some of these poems offer miraculously vivid excavations of such everyday objects as the humble scatter cushion, while others ache with the longing to touch, really touch, everything everything