The Shipwrecked House

Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien. These poems are sketches, lyrics, dreams, and experiments in language as sound.

Trévien’s is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is alive and — like the sea itself — constantly shifting form. Fishermen become owls; one woman turns into a snake, another gives birth to a tree; a glow-worm might be a wasp or ‘a toy on standby’. Struck through with brilliant and sometimes sinister imagery reminiscent of Pan’s Labyrinth or an Angela Carter novel, The Shipwrecked House is a unique and hallucinatory debut from a poet-to-watch.

• Author
• Claire Trévien

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 64

• Publisher
• Penned in the Margins

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781908058119

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2013