Book description
Rachael Boast’s first collection is dominated by astral influence and
divine chance, by unseen or remote causes; but despite its celestial
title,
Sidereal
is full of terrestrial concerns, the traffic and chaos of the human and
natural worlds. Ultimately, however, it is the work of a poet who
believes that we must also turn our gaze skywards to make sense of who
we are, and these poems pursue their elliptical but inevitable orbits
through a world where the earthly and transcendent are thoroughly
interfused. Above all, Sidereal
impresses through Boast’s lyric faith, which through even the worst
pain and despair can still offer its clarities and revelations, and
announces an important new voice in British poetry. Rachael Boast was
born in Suffolk in 1975. She currently divides her time between Scotland
and the West Country.
