Böcker av Nancy Charley

Grace Notes reflects a lifetime's consideration of how grace calls and responds. Playful, wide-ranging, provocative and restorative, these poems point to the sacredness of the everyday. In this new collection, Nancy Charley explores different forms of poetry in a jubilee (50) of poems.

This Woman is an extended praise poem reminding me a little of the Welsh bard's I am Taliesin but with more mystery, adroitness, and without a hint of his boastfulness. The language is strong, rooted and engrained with womaness. I traced the rocks, the veins of wounds and rush of streams with my fingertips. I heard her deep calls and followed her flights. Each poem, an epiphany; the collection, extraordinary. ( Abegail Morley, award-winning poet.)Nancy Charley's joy in being a woman is as elemental and finely nuanced as the often surprising images rippling through these poems. This is a lyrical, considered and inventive evocation of the complexities and experience of being female, by a poet confident in the handling of form and the subtle cadences of rhyme and rhythm. ( Marilyn Donovan, former Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year, author of A Calculus of Balance: Poems after Piet Mondrian.)This collection challenges the geography of womanhood. The poet's voice is coloured with the language of violence but, importantly, her writing paints a portrait not of victimhood but of strength, resourcefulness, and quiet heroism. With form as fluid and ever-changing as its subject, Nancy Charley takes a different two-dimensional framing of what it means to be a woman and tilts it this way and that, shining light on secrets, distortions, bruises and cracks - but most of all, showing womanhood, with all its rippling layers, to be a thing of enormous natural beauty. ( Louise McCudden, writer, advocate for LGBTQ and reproductive rights.)

Eavesdropping is a script for a ten minute 'duet' poetry performance. It takes a lighthearted look at relationships, their making, decline, and remaking. Devised and written by Nancy Charley, it draws on her own poetry, and that of Jeremy Langrish and Jenny Macrey. Nancy's selection of poems are appended to the script in their original form. Eavesdropping has been performed by Ambigram in 2011

Patricia's Box is the script for a one woman show about two women - Pat and Tricia. Pat lives in the box liking pat answers. Tricia prefers to stay out of the box. But maybe they are really the same woman?