The Plucking Shed by Gill McEvoy
Extract ()
First full-length collection following successful pamphlet.
The Plucking Shed is an accomplished collection from a poet alive to the requirements of the spoken word as well as to the visual and the word on the page. The pieces are remarkably honed, turning the raw material of life, loss and nature into gems.
Praise for The Plucking Shed
Gill McEvoy’s poetry has an eerie focus on natural phenomena.
W.N. Herbert
These poems are like jewels. Incalculable pressures underpin their creation. Luminous and compelling (but by no means reassuring) they offer themselves to the light.
Helena Nelson
Gill McEvoy is a poet, performer and poetry events organiser living in Chester. As a young mother she faced the illness and early death of her husband. In 1999 she faced ovarian cancer, the disease that killed her mother, and went on to live long beyond the prognosis.