Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton A brilliant debut from Melita

A brilliant debut from Melita Hume Poetry Prize Winner 2016 Jenna Clake

and a footballer’s sublime (if optimistic) pass to a teammate – these poems address the nature of the distances between us

was published in 1926

Effortlessly immediate and contemporary

Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton A brilliant debut from MelitaTessa Berrings Folded Purse is a rigorous and playful study of the known world and its ultimately unknowable things. Within its folds, poems call to, sometimes quarrel with, each other as images (a warm spell, an outdoor cow) slip from one poem to another. Some of these poems offer miraculously vivid excavations of such everyday objects as the humble scatter cushion, while others ache with the longing to touch, really touch, everything everything