by Carole Satyamurti (Author)
The central theme of Carole Satyamurti's collection is the shifting relationship between loss and gain. It explores the varied ways in which that relationship is played out in day-to-day experience. Carole Satyamurti is a poet and sociologist, who lives and works in London. She co-edited Acquainted with the Night: psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination (2003). She won the National Poetry Competition in 1986, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. Countdown (2011) is her first new collection since Stitching the Dark: New & Selected Poems (2005), which drew on five collections: Broken Moon (1987), Changing the Subject (1990), Striking Distance (1994), Love and Variations (2000), and Stitching the Dark (2005), two of these Poetry Book Society Recommendations.