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The Purpose of Your Visit
River Wolton
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978-1-906613-05-1
Highly commended in The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2007
River Wolton grew up in London and lived in Sheffield for twenty years before moving to North Derbyshire. She works as a writer in schools, libraries and community projects, and was the Derbyshire Poet Laureate. Her poems, non-fiction and reportage have appeared in a number of publications. She is one of six Poets With a Kick, and with them co-authored the creative non-fiction anthology, Some Girls' Mothers
‘(Her) gift to us throughout this pamphlet is to allow us to better understand the personal challenges of sadness, conflict and even fear, by considering the global urgencies of war, poverty and violence. Her narratives use language and images that are strong, simple and clear, and they provide us with a stillness within which we can listen to her voice and share her experience.’ – Rosie Shepperd, Magma
‘She writes about the big subjects – life, love, death – in a gloriously easy and accessible style.’ - Tribune
‘... the real achievement is in the voice. There is no explication of opinion here, no sermonising, just brutally honest observation. This is conflict restrained by the poetic form and rendered all the more frightening for it.’ – Jane Bluett, Assent (formerly Poetry Nottingham)
‘She explores a palpable contemporary world, tilting it to view its planes and angles. She is alert to the experience of exile and displacement … Her writing is rhythmical and confident, the details telling. River Wolton is a poet to watch.’ — Moniza Alvi
‘The winning entry [‘Everything I Know About War’] describes the agony of survivors and yet is beautiful because it is written with great care and love for the people in the poem and for the English language.’ — Adrian Mitchell, Red Pepper Poetry Competition
'Well-chosen details stamp the poems with authenticity and, in a consistently contemporary idiom, she maintains a tone which is wry, questioning, empathic and serious.' – Dilys Wood, Artemis Poetry
