Amy Louise Wyatt

A Language I Understand

‘A Language I Understand’ seeks to understand the relationships that we have with our past, our memories, our loved ones, and how we can make sense of these in our own unique way.

ISBN 978-1-912876-31-0

Paperback

28 pages

£6.00 +P&P

THE AUTHOR

Amy Louise Wyatt is a widely published poet, artist and lecturer from Bangor, Northern Ireland. Amy was shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Award in 2018 and 2020, and The Dempsey and Windle National Poetry Day Competition in 2019. She was a finalist in TNFS Poetry Competition 2017 and nominated for 2019 Best of the Net. Amy won the inaugural Poetrygram Prize, 2019. She is founding editor of The Bangor Literary Journal.

‘A skilled and intuitive poet, Wyatt understands the tactile nature of sensory imagery. In her curation of personal artefacts, she holds each talisman, totem and relic up to the light so the reader can clearly view the significant people, places and memories that have been sewn into the fabric of these poems. Wyatt's miniature worlds pulse with a subtle, affecting power.’

Ross Thompson

‘In this much awaited debut pamphlet from Wyatt, the reader is gifted a world full of hedonistic delicacies – the smell of tarnished neglect, the sound of horses’ hooves on cobblestones, the sting of lemons and budgie bites. At the end, the reader can say “that is ‘A Language I Understand’”

Gaynor Kane