UNEARTHED by Ruth Taaffe

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Ruth Taaffe is from Manchester, England. She has lived across the Pennines in Sheffield, in the milder South and further afield in Thailand, Australia and Singapore, with her husband and two sons. She writes about home, family and memory, the experience of living overseas and how the natural environment finds its way into our identity. As an English teacher Ruth has taught in the UK and in international schools for over twenty five years. She has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and her poems have been published, both online and in print, in the UK and internationally.

"To unearth something is to reveal something that was previously hidden from sight. It can also mean to discover something about someone that was not known before. If you dig beneath the surface of Taaffe’s poems, [...] you will discover that they often throw new light on human emotions and the way we relate to external stimuli and / or situations.
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Here there are poems about heliconias, frangipani, orchids, pineapples, pomegranates, satsumas and beetroot. It is the attention to detail that makes these poems sing..."
-- Neil Leadbeater

Ruth Taaffe unearths wonder in ordinary things, where a potato is ‘clothed in gravity under loam’ and a beetroot is ‘dense as a hunted heart, large in the palm /of a hand.’ Other poems are memories of people and places, zoomed in, inviting us ‘to be both there and then and now, at once’. Taking a second look at the world through Ruth’s poems is a gift for the soul.
— Anna Teresa Slater

In their vivid and echoing imagery, Ruth Taaffe's atmospheric and beautifully observed poems are as sensuous as they are searching. Like the life-growth in the haunting title poem, the narratives of 'Unearthed' probe the 'manifold soil' of both human and natural worlds with memorable grace and precision. A rich and exciting debut.
— ​Jane Draycott

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ISBN: 978-1-913329-47-1
Paperback148 x 210mm, 38 pages
RRP £8.00

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