Now You Can Look by Julia Bird Cape Poetry the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

– by one of the greatest poets of all time

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Wenlock Poetry Festival and the Poetry Cafe

Now You Can Look by Julia Bird Cape Poetry the Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeLike an oil painting, Now You Can Look is a work built up of layers. The colourful subject of its narrative is a woman who takes one glance at what the early twentieth century has set out for her, and throws in her lot with art instead. On the surface, Julia Bird's poems are beautifully textured, conjuring a life rich with 'whispering pelts' in theatre cloakrooms, a yellow kimono with its hem 'like cut butter from an icebox', and the intricacies of an