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Charlotte Eichler

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Charlotte Eichler was born in Hertfordshire and studied English Literature and Russian at the University of Nottingham. She has an MA in Norse and Viking Studies, also from Nottingham. Her debut pamphlet, Their Lunar Language, was published by Valley Press in 2018 and a selection of her work was featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII in 2021. She lives near Leeds.

'Charlotte Eichler's Swimming Between Islands is the kind of book that reads you with patient and exquisite attention. Or perhaps it teaches you to read it, which is to say to see and listen and feel your way toward layers of clarity, as when fog lifts from the shore and you see yourself. Which is to say these poems build a world where inner and outer landscapes converse, blur and converge; emotionally astute and ecologically attuned, they change your mind.'
Jenny Browne, Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize Judge
'The pyrotechnic brilliance of Eichler's poetry resides in leap-making, a fearless embracing of the unlimited possibilities of form and style... there is a diaphanous quality to the poet's thinking that superimposes a luminous film over her tableux.'
Steve Whitaker, Yorkshire Times
'Read Charlotte Eichler's poems slowly, so that you can really take note of them, because they're astonishing,'
Laura Scott

Awards won by Charlotte Eichler Short-listed, 2024 The Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize (Swimming Between Islands)

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Charlotte Eichler Books by this author: Swimming Between Islands About Reviews Awards Charlotte Eichler was born in Hertfordshire and studied English Literature and Russian at the University of Nottingham. She has an MA in Norse and Viking Studies, also from Nottingham. Her debut pamphlet, Their Lunar Language, was published by Valley Press in 2018 and a selection of her work was featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII in 2021. She lives near Leeds. 'Charlotte Eichler's Swimming Between Islands is the kind of book that reads you with patient and exquisite attention. Or perhaps it teaches you to read it, which is to say to see and listen and feel your way toward layers of clarity, as when fog lifts from the shore and you see yourself. Which is to say these poems build a world where inner and outer landscapes converse, blur and converge; emotionally astute and ecologically attuned, they change your mind.' Jenny Browne, Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize Judge 'The pyrotechnic brilliance of Eichler's poetry resides in leap-making, a fearless embracing of the unlimited possibilities of form and style... there is a diaphanous quality to the poet's thinking that superimposes a luminous film over her tableux.' Steve Whitaker, Yorkshire Times 'Read Charlotte Eichler's poems slowly, so that you can really take note of them, because they're astonishing,' Laura Scott Awards won by Charlotte Eichler Short-listed, 2024 The Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize (Swimming Between Islands)	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog We've Moved! read more Books of the Year read more One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more
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