Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton was published in 1926

was published in 1926

Effortlessly immediate and contemporary

Some of the voices fear involvement

celebration and mourning

Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2014

Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton was published in 1926Tessa Berrings Folded Purse is a rigorous and playful study of the known world and its ultimately unknowable things. Within its folds, poems call to, sometimes quarrel with, each other as images (a warm spell, an outdoor cow) slip from one poem to another. Some of these poems offer miraculously vivid excavations of such everyday objects as the humble scatter cushion, while others ache with the longing to touch, really touch, everything everything