Paperweight

In her second major collection, Claire Gaskin dismantles language to explore theemotional and intellectual integrity of experience and liberates the power of imagery in moments of pure surprise.

Spare yet expressive, playful yet wise, Paperweight celebrates the visceral power of poetry and its connection to the body, personal history, and the emergence of the unconscious in us all.

'Gaskin blends plain diction with perverse metaphor and fateful enjambment- images accumulate then then out, like a tide. One line can be heartbreaking as a dream; the next will underminethe language of hypocrisy, violence or moralism.' - Bonny Cassidy

'Gaskin uses feminist structures to challenge what should not go unchallenged and to affirm what should not go unaffirmed'. - Michael Farrell