The Shipwrecked House. Claire Trvien

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2013Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trevien. These poems are sketches, lyrics, dreams, and experiments in language as sound.Trevien& 39;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& 39;a toy on standby& 39;. Struck through with brilliant and sometimes sinister imagery reminiscent of Pan& 39;s Labyrinth or an Angela Carter novel, The Shipwrecked House is a unique and hallucinatory debut from a poet-to-watch.