The Fourth Sister

A The Telegraph Book of the Year

Laura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and children, the living and the dead, birds and trees, painters, playwrights and their characters, a godfather who married the wrong man and a godmother who was surely a spy. The book's energy flows out into other lives, discovering vital connections and the gaps between them. Scott writes as a poet in Wordsworth's sense: 'an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere relationship and love.'

Subjects: Literature

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This title is available in the following collections: Carcanet Collection  

  • Author: Laura Scott
  • Publisher: Carcanet
  • ISBN: 9781800173057