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In Caroline Natzler's poetry, with its strong evocation of place, the familiar and the domestic can become strange and mysterious. Running through her work is a disturbing existential uncertainty, given eloquent and vivid expression by her unusual imagery and subtly controlled rhythms.
Something amiss in things... Design Fault evokes potentialities and failures of meaning — in nature, art, religion, society and politics. There is a wide range of feelings in these poems: passion and scepticism but celebration too, a tenderness for ordinary life.
She looks with attention at the detail, often uncomfortable, of everyday and transcends it. She also writes with an edginess and originality about the wider world. A passionate intensity, which is the true stuff of poetry, underlies the sense of search, absence and rejoicing in this writing. Myra Schneider
Sharp-sighted, sad, eloquent through what's unsaid, this is not like anyone else's poetry. U.A. Fanthorpe
Her language is always conscious, self-questioning, careful to say no more than it means to - and no less. Gillian Allnutt
The best complement I can pay the poet is by wanting to see more. Derrick Butress
Design Fault costs £7.00 and has ISBN 1-873226-42-X It was published in 2001.
Caroline Natzler lives in London and teaches creative writing at the City University, London University (Goldsmiths' College) and the City Literary Institute. She also works part-time as a local-authority lawyer. A collection of her stories, Water Wings was published in 1990, and Pikestaff Press brought out her poetry pamphlet, Speaking the Wetlands, in 1998. Containing over seventy poems, Design Fault is her first full collection.
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