Summary
Volvelle, Rachael Boast’s fifth poetry collection, highlights the need to remember old forms of connection in an era of fragmentation and technological acceleration. Her title embodies something of this in its elegant, recurring consonants—conjuring love, revolve, evolve—the volvelle a circular paper chart of rotating parts for calculating the cycles of the sun and the moon.
There are poems here in conversation with Akhmatova, Cocteau, Lorca, Mirabai, Tennyson and Suf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781037400476 |
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| ISBN-10: | 103740047X |
| Author: | Rachael Boast |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 104g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 157mm x 206mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Some poets draw you out into the world, and some pull you into their inner world. Rachael Boast’s fine new collection, Hotel Raphael, confirms her as that rarity who manages both. * Guardian *
Her quietly assured verse demonstrates its real sophistication in the intelligence of its commentary. To put it another way, she says such interesting things that you want to know what comes next. * Independent *
Rachael Boast
Rachael Boast is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Volvelle. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Blackbox Manifold, Chicago Review, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, TLS, and The Scores.
She is co-editor of The Echoing Gallery: Bristol Poets and Art in the City and The Caught Habits of Language: An Entertainment for W.S. Graham for Him Having Reached One Hundred.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Advisor to the Estate of W.S. Graham, and a disability advocate. She lives in Suffolk.
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