Holly Singlehurst was born in 1993. After graduating with a BA in Music and English Literature from the University of Birmingham, she went on to complete a Master\u2019s in Creative Writing. She was commended in the National Poetry Competition in 2016 for her poem \u2018Hiroshima, 1961\u2019, shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2017, and recently won a Pushcart Prize for her poem \u2018On Agate Beach\u2019 (Pushcart Prize XLVI, 2022 edition). Holly lives and works in London.<\/p>\n
You can find Holly on Twitter: @HJSinglehurst.<\/p>\n
\u00a36 inc P&P (UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n ISBN 978-1-909632-12-7 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So often poetry starts as a matter of poise and commitment, which Singlehurst possesses in abundance, and then it\u2019s a matter of what you do with it; some new intimacy, a freshly dazzling way with imagery, the new honesty of the most excruciating thoughts, pure longing. The more disconcerting the subject matter of The sea turned thick as hone<\/em>y, the more keenly felt, the more deeply consolingly the poetry rises to meet it. A wonderful, urgent debut, as ambitious and far-reaching as it is assured.<\/p>\n Luke Kennard<\/em><\/p>\n Holly Singlehurst\u2019s pamphlet,\u00a0The sea turned thick as honey<\/em>, is ravishing, intoxicating and disorientating in its originality and skill. Formed through intricate, delicate, unexpected images that melt into each other with fluidity, confidence and exuberance, I found myself bereft when I had finished reading the twenty-five brilliant poems.\u00a0From\u00a0the opening poem \u2018Exoskeleton\u2019\u00a0with the unforgettable line \u2018Two snails were curled together, their shells nervously bumping \/ like teeth in a first kiss\u2019, to \u2018Love song from a seaside souvenir shop\u2019\u00a0that finishes the book with \u2018\u2026and I\u2019ll laugh and say,\u00a0I know just what you mean\u2019<\/em>, it is completely and utterly irresistible. Read it, read it, read it.<\/p>\n Victoria Kennefick<\/em><\/p>\n Utterly corporeal and electric, Singlehurst\u2019s poems are hymns to the body \u2013 exploring its permeability, its resonances and its many eroticisms. \u2018I once pissed on my hand \/ just to prove I was warm\u2019 writes Singlehurst in a characteristic moment of bravery and bravado. And yet desire here is carefully weighted with a need to expose just what it means to be absolutely present, sensory and attuned to the world. \u2018I am a bowl filled with blood\u2019 writes Singlehurst, evoking a second voice, something lucid and almost incantatory echoing away beneath the heat of these poems, offering us something truly multifarious and fiercely intelligent.<\/p>\n Richard Scott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10117,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[222],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10116","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-pamphlets","7":"product_shipping_class-pamphlets","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"featured","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWire bound pamphlet, 36pp including cover.<\/p>\n