num_pages: 64
description: Houses Without Walls includes Susan Utting s poem Woodwork which was highly commended for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2006. Woodwork was also Poem on Sunday in the Independent on Sunday.These are intelligent, wittily passionate poems. Susan Utting has an eye for real and telling details, and is adept at employing them to good effect. David ConstantinePoets are often praised for knowing what to leave out. Susan Utting knows what to leave in. Ordinary things gain an almost hallucinatory vividness in her richly textured poems. Utting animates life s brittle edges and her poems carry unforced emotional weight. - Moniza Alvi
language: English
title: Houses without Walls
titlecomplete: Houses without Walls
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Two Rivers Press