Littoral
Littoral by Patricia Debney, published by Shearsman Books in 2013, is an 80-page exploration of the emotional landscape following her young son’s diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. Written during a six-week period in a beach hut on the North Kent coast, the work captures the interplay of loss and love against the backdrop of shifting winds and seas. This edition presents prose poems that reflect on the nuances of nature and personal experience, merging elements of both poetry and prose.
Readers will find a thoughtful examination of the relationship between the self and the natural world, as Debney’s writing delves into themes of patience and precision. The prose poems articulate a deep engagement with the environment, inviting contemplation on how personal experiences resonate within the broader context of nature. This work contributes to the fields of American and European poetry, particularly highlighting the voices of women authors.
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A year after her young son’s diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, Patricia Debney spent six weeks writing in a beach hut on the North Kent coast. From the often bleak, always shifting winds and seas, prose poems of loss and love emerged.
“Littoral is a sustained and sparkling piece of sea watching, chiefly through a cut down prose that concentrates on much the same things as verse would. So it looks to understand, to note and to register phenomenon as meaning. In doing so it speaks of patience, precision and the way one reads one’s life into nature – gingerly, with due courtesy and humility. The process is an essential part of the domain of prose poetry, combining the sobriety of reportage with the transformations of poetry.” -George Szirtes
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