Abi Curtis

Biography
Abi Curtis lectures in creative writing at The University of Sussex, Brighton, where she also completed a PhD on psychoanalysis and literature in 2007. She writes poetry and fiction. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2004, and was one of the winners of Salt's Crashaw Prize in 2008.

UNEXPECTED WEATHER (SALT PUBLISHING, 2009)

 * Hand + Star -- The poems wrestle weather like an alligator fighter. They have their directions but it’s the small hints at other adventures that excite.
 * Delirium's Library -- ... Curtis gets wryly and slyly to the Gothic heart of the English country house/garden, revealing its passionate heart and eccentric imagination ...
 * Poetry London -- Because it’s not immediately anxious to please, its pleasures reveal themselves through a longer engagement, and they are serious, unsettled and unsettling pleasures.
 * Stride -- Some poems recall Alice Oswald's territory: 'Mole', 'The Allotment', 'The Ghost of The Nature Reserve','...my hair, streaked in silver /  every evening by star-shine and snails', and 'Mycelium', consciously or unconsciously, nods towards Derek Mahon's 'A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford'' ...
 * Echo from the Canyon -- This is a striking collection, full of moody, breathy language.