Uneasy Pieces

Written during a fellowship in Germany and lockdown in Oxford, Nancy’s third volume of poems Uneasy Pieces is a score composed in uncanny spaces and around silence. The sequence moves across borders and the centuries, documenting bodies asleep and wakeful, damaged and desired. Here are fugitive auroras and black holes, as well as miniscule misprints and ink blots, improvised intermissions and equivocal acts of translation.

‘Proximity and distance are the two poles from which Nancy Campbell tensions these delicate, teasing, coolly impassioned prose poems. Like letters within letters, endlessly re-readable, these fourteen poems spool away into heart-breaking abstraction but are always true to the earthly – to snowfall, a mulberry tree, primroses, the colours of a bruise on an arm.’—Martyn Crucefix

‘a deeply moving and elegiac pamphlet on love and loss. Centred on a traveller’s stream-of-consciousness and grief over a broken relationship, these prose poems are so precise, perceptive, and articulate and are also combined with a powerful and intuitive use of poetic language. Many of Campbell’s poems are wonderfully experimental in the storytelling and use of narrative…’—Jenny Wong, in Under the Radar

‘a melodious, lyrical collection of poems, inspiring in their craft and cadences.’—Mandy Pannett, in Tears in the Fence