‘My father struggles slowly through the day room
lifting his stick as he looks around smiling.’
Taking Leave
The Spectator 2023
'Her ability to evoke myriad landscapes and visceral, sometimes uncomfortable images'
Caroline trained as a sculptor at Goldsmiths College. Unable to afford a studio, and needing to work from home as a mother, ill-fortune became good when it propelled her to find her natural art form as a narrative poet.
She constructs poetry like sculpture, unfolding an idea from different angles and perspectives, creating space and depth within a compressed space. In sculpture the technique would be 'relievo schiacciato'. Translated into 2 dimensions, her poetry uses a similar technique to build and reveal layers in a conceptual narrative.
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