Annette Skade

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Thimblerig Annette Skade

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Annette Skade is an award-winning poet whose first collection Thimblerig was published following Skade’s receipt of the Cork Review Literary Manuscript prize in 2012.

Annette Skade’s poems are energised by a perspective that is ‘at once small as a wormhole / and wide as the curve of star-netted space.’

The language of these accomplished poems moves deftly, and often wittily, between the quotidian details of the physical world and metaphysical concerns as the poet Bernard O’Donoghue explains:

Annette Skade’s Thimblerig centres on the way the material reality of the world exists in a precarious but crucial balance with the tricks and the ‘sleight of hand’ that keep it in being. Generations of women ‘play out the old game’ of life by the same instinct that moves the salmon. These poems of sea and land, of birth and death, face the great issues; but they face them with a wit and matter-of-factness which recognize that, except for luck and chance, they might not have existed at all. The theme is absorbingly sustained throughout this brilliant book.

 

Annette Skade poet
 
Annette Skade is an award-winning poet, and teacher, living and writing on the Beara peninsula on Ireland's south-west coast.
 
In July 2013 she launched her inaugural poetry collection Thimblerig at the West Cork Literary Festival and is now working on poems for a second book.

Poems

You can read some of Annette Skade's poems here on the website.
Her first collection of poetry, Thimblerig, can be bought directly from the publisher at Bradshaw Books or from Waterstones. Buy online from Abebooks, and Blackwells, or in Blackwell's Oxford store.
 
Thimblerig is also available from Bantry Bookshop, Kenmare Bookshop, the Sarah Walker Gallery in Castletownbere, the Winding Stair Bookshop in Dublin, and Waterstones, Cork.

You can buy a copy of Thimblerig directly from the publishers Bradshaw Books or via Waterstones

Published on Poethead

Several of Annette's poems have recently been published over on Poethead, the wonderful poetry blog run by Christine Murray.

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