Awards
Costa Poetry Award
2009 Shortlist
Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds
Judges: "This first collection is witty, humane, confident, full of everyday details but with a capacity to surprise and delight."
Quietly persuasive and formally adept, the poems in Kathryn Simmonds' first collection engage with both the quotidian and the transcendental. Often set in urban or suburban contexts, her protagonists struggle with mundane tasks such as cooking, commuting or office work, all the obstacles of modernity, and then, by some shift of attention, or by some narrowing of focus, they chance upon the surreal or the spiritual. This is poetry of subtle contexts and allusions, as much concerned with the vulnerability of the body as for the fate of the soul and the idea of ?keeping faith' in God and life.
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