Hymnal

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Hymnal

Hymnal

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Late in the 1960s, before Bell was born, her father and mother visited Aberaeron, a small fishing town on the west coast of Wales. Here, her father heard a voice - which he knew to be God - directing him to minister to the Welsh. Six months after she was born in the early 1970s, they moved to Aberaeron where he took up his first curateship. Over the next eighteen years they would move to various parishes within a forty mile radius: first to Llangeler a predominantly Welsh-speaking parish in the Teifi valley, then back to Aberaeron where Bell's father became vicar, and then to a larger and more Evangelical church in Aberystwyth. This unique memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and sexuality. In verse because it's how Bell remembers: snapshots in words strung along a line, which somehow constitute a life. Snapshots of another time from now, but from a time which tells us about how Bell got here. Not the whole story, but her story. Of an English family on a mission from God, of signs and wonders in the Welsh countryside, of difference, and of faith and its loss.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781914595110
ISBN10 1914595114
Number Of Pages 112
Item Weight 1000 g
Product Dimensions 148 x 210 x 12 mm
Publisher / Reseller Parthian Books
Format paperback
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'Moving, tender writing with a haunting evocation of place and time.' - Hannah Lowe; 'These full-throated poems bring to resonant life the story of a daughter whose father's calling "sits on all our shoulders like a fog". Bewildered by severities at odds with her body, she wonders at Jonah breathing inside a whale while on land "I do not know which way is up ... The surface is so far down." Yet the desires of the queer self unfolding in thrilling detail here refuse to be extinguished - the phrasing in Hymnal glistens with the rich clarity of stained glass.' - John McCullough

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Author's Bio

Julia Bell is a writer and academic, she is the author of four novels, the bestselling Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) and the book-length essay Radical Attention (Peninsula Press). Her essays and short stories have been published nationally and internationally including in the TLS, the White Review and the Paris Review and broadcast on the BBC. Her poetry has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Prize. She is a Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.

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