These Yellow Days

Author(s): Hawkins, Kitty,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 21/04/2025,
Pagination: 60 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Two Rivers Press,
Published By: Two Rivers Press,
Book Classification: Poetry,
Dimensions: 208 x 136 x 7
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781915048257

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Kitty Hawkins’ first collection These Yellow Days is haunted by the birth and death of an idealised adulthood. Its extinction, in the form of a dead woman, haunts the poems, observing erosion, dunescapes, femininity, rebirth.

Set largely in the blustery yet desolate expanses of a coastal landscape, These Yellow Days uses speculative and imaginative juxtapositions as a means of rewriting memories, particularly interactions with those the poet holds most dear. A ghost-like water leaks through the pages, giving and taking life simultaneously. What remains is the sharp and vulnerable, which, like an onshore breeze, scours the natural for hope.