Exact Colour of Snow by Bridget Khursheed TS Eliot Prize sensuous poems

sensuous poems

The poems in this collection

broken song'

— Alice Jolly

the couplet is reshaped and crystallised

Exact Colour of Snow by Bridget Khursheed TS Eliot Prize sensuous poemsThe Exact Colour of Snow articulates a complicit, playful commentary on our mundane interactions with the natural world. Notes, fragments and glimpsed biographies explore how we ignore our fragile landscape even while grounded in its rhythms, shapes and colours. Skeining through the fashion and factories of global import export and dye making, we travel back to soil, plants and animals. A route that offers different harvests: clearing bombs to erect