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Backalong Nia Broomhall

Backalong By Nia Broomhall

Backalong by Nia Broomhall

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Backalong, a dialect word from Nia Broomhalls native Somerset, describes any point in the past. Her impressive debut collection observes distant past and recent past through poems of place and origin as well as tracking the process of grieving for someone who was right there, not so long ago.

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Backalong: winner of the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition by Nia Broomhall

Backalong, a dialect word from Nia Broomhalls native Somerset, describes any point in the past it could be this March, last March, or 1979. True to its title, her impressive debut collection observes the distant past and recent past with the same eyes: the distant past through poems of place and origin; the recent through poems that track the process of grieving for someone who was right there, not so long ago. Through its musicality of language, Backalong searches for joy, finding what persists and finding the words to pick out what shines, despite everything.

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Backalong is so pleasurable: it shines with hope and light and key, bright kindnesses and reluctant grief. Nia Broomhall is a poet, a real one, whose poems will be loved.

-- Conor O'Callaghan

About Nia Broomhall

Nia Broomhall won the 2023 Mslexia Womens Poetry Pamphlet Competition judged by Imtiaz Dharker for her debut collection Backalong (Bloodaxe Books/Mslexia, 2024). She received an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in 2023, and is Poet in Residence at Painshill Park in Surrey for 2024, funded by an Arts Council DYCP grant. She won the Poetry Societys Hamish Canham Prize for 2023/2024, and was Highly Commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize in 2022 and 2023. Her poems have been published in Magma, Bad Lilies, Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Alchemy Spoon, The Interpreter's House and The Friday Poem, and anthologised by Sidhe Press and Black Bough Poetry. Currently co-Head of English at a comprehensive school in Surrey, the best hour of her week is Poetry Club on a Friday afternoon. Originally from rural Somerset, she comes from a long line of West Country women who talk to strangers and embarrass their children.

Table of Contents

7 Nina, who is still here 8 Ice 11 The Floods and the Frogs 12 In / Eleven Hours 13 Tulips 14 Morphine Driver 15 Still 16 My Parents Accent 17 Nonostante 18 Nevicata 19 After she died 20 Folly 21 Dutch Elm 22 Lemon 23 Ajar 24 Hedgerow 25 Three ways to look at it 26 Varifocals 27 New Years Day 28 Green 29 Collect 30 Backalong 32 Acknowledgements

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NGR9781780377162
9781780377162
1780377169
Backalong: winner of the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition by Nia Broomhall
Nia Broomhall
New
Hardback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
2024-09-19
32
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