Ciara Shuttleworth
Ciara Shuttleworth’s first collection of poems, Rabbit Heart, taps into the carnal energies of her forebears, poets like Whitman, whose “body electric” is channeled in “Electric Like Lightning”: I want to feel electric, high voltage, my body / housing unharnessed megawatts equal to a single shard / of lightning”; and, if not lightning, being “soaked / by rain . . . so the electricity runs over my body. / Body as home.” Or like Dickinson, in “Theory and Practice,” where Shuttleworth writes “The waves are writing a love letter / in cursive, alluring,” and “pull from the depths synonyms for love in their wire cages.” Poem after poem, from Gypsy Rose Lee to the wreckage of ships and Norma Jeane Baker, Shuttleworth’s poetry takes you to surprising people, places, and states of heart.
Penguin Poets’ Robert Wrigley (who has nine poetry collection including the recent Box) praised Rabbit Heart:
Reading Ciara Shuttleworth’s Rabbit Heart, you might detect here and there a tang of Millay; or a certain incense that reminds you of Lynda Hull; then a pulse of Plath-like intensity, or a hint of Franz Wright. Comparisons like these will leap to mind, but Ciara Shuttleworth doesn’t write like anyone except herself. Which is to say, with fierceness, resourcefulness, exactitude, and pure, sometimes unnerving, but also courageous, honesty.
Rabbit Heart may be purchased through www.ciarashuttleworth.com/books or:
Texas A&M Press: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781622889174/rabbit-heart/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Heart-Ciara-Shuttleworth/dp/1622889177/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ciara+shuttleworth&qid=1611425775&sr=8-1
Ciara Shuttleworth is the author of the chapbook, Night Holds Its Own, from Blue Horse Press, and a gonzo prose book, 4,500 Miles: Taking Jack Back On the Road, from Humanitas Media. She is best known for her six-word sestina, “Sestina,” which has been published in The New Yorker, The Norton Anthology of Literature, and The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students. The poem was also used for original compositions by classical composers Judah Adashi, Christopher Traponi, and Frank Pesci. Shuttleworth received an MFA in poetry from University of Idaho and art degrees from San Francisco Art Institute and Gustavus Adolphus College. She is a former Kerouac House of Orlando writer-in-residence.
WEBSITE?
Www.ciarashuttleworth.com
FACEBOOK?
Ciara Shuttleworth
INSTAGRAM?
@ciarashuttleworth
Penguin Poets’ Robert Wrigley (who has nine poetry collection including the recent Box) praised Rabbit Heart:
Reading Ciara Shuttleworth’s Rabbit Heart, you might detect here and there a tang of Millay; or a certain incense that reminds you of Lynda Hull; then a pulse of Plath-like intensity, or a hint of Franz Wright. Comparisons like these will leap to mind, but Ciara Shuttleworth doesn’t write like anyone except herself. Which is to say, with fierceness, resourcefulness, exactitude, and pure, sometimes unnerving, but also courageous, honesty.
Rabbit Heart may be purchased through www.ciarashuttleworth.com/books or:
Texas A&M Press: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781622889174/rabbit-heart/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Heart-Ciara-Shuttleworth/dp/1622889177/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ciara+shuttleworth&qid=1611425775&sr=8-1
Ciara Shuttleworth is the author of the chapbook, Night Holds Its Own, from Blue Horse Press, and a gonzo prose book, 4,500 Miles: Taking Jack Back On the Road, from Humanitas Media. She is best known for her six-word sestina, “Sestina,” which has been published in The New Yorker, The Norton Anthology of Literature, and The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students. The poem was also used for original compositions by classical composers Judah Adashi, Christopher Traponi, and Frank Pesci. Shuttleworth received an MFA in poetry from University of Idaho and art degrees from San Francisco Art Institute and Gustavus Adolphus College. She is a former Kerouac House of Orlando writer-in-residence.
WEBSITE?
Www.ciarashuttleworth.com
FACEBOOK?
Ciara Shuttleworth
INSTAGRAM?
@ciarashuttleworth
