where the writers are
The Ground Beneath Her Feet Anthology Cover
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Not available.

Harrison gives an overview of the book:

“Selecting stories for the anthology, The Ground Beneath Her Feet & other stories & poems was no easy task, but from the first read Harrison Solow’s ‘The Postmaster’s Song’ leapt off the page. The style is engaging and innovative. From the three possible beginnings to the delightful end, which invites the next leap of imagination, the reader is treated as an intelligent participant in this part fairy-tale, part creative non-fiction story. It’s refreshing to find an author who can not only spin tales, but also take risks – crossing genres, pushing the boundaries of perception, playing with language – and all with a light touch, beautifully controlled. It’s an exquisite story, finely told and will certainly make you want to read more of Harrison Solow’s work.” ~ Dr Jan Fortune-Wood, Editor: Cinnamon Press   The Ground beneath her feet ed: Jan Fortune-Wood...
Read full overview »

“Selecting stories for the anthology, The Ground Beneath Her Feet & other stories & poems was no easy task, but from the first read Harrison Solow’s ‘The Postmaster’s Song’ leapt off the page. The style is engaging and innovative. From the three possible beginnings to the delightful end, which invites the next leap of imagination, the reader is treated as an intelligent participant in this part fairy-tale, part creative non-fiction story. It’s refreshing to find an author who can not only spin tales, but also take risks – crossing genres, pushing the boundaries of perception, playing with language – and all with a light touch, beautifully controlled. It’s an exquisite story, finely told and will certainly make you want to read more of Harrison Solow’s work.”

~ Dr Jan Fortune-Wood, Editor: Cinnamon Press

 

The Ground beneath her feet ed: Jan Fortune-Wood £8.99 UK delivery, £9.99 elsewhere

 

Life lived on shifting ground, in the extraordinary moments when something cracks and something new happens is the underlying thread that unites the stories and poems in The Ground Beneath Her Feet. From Alice Keys award winning title story in which the cracks in the wall become the metaphor for both breaking and healing to beautifully crafted poems of Sue Wood, in which a comb burning foreshadows death with surprising grace and white becomes a metamorphosis; from Harrison Solow’s hypnotic, fable-like prose to Clare Jay’s precise, assured poetry the writing in this anthology engages and surprises, discomforts and delights.

Read an excerpt »

 From The Postmaster's Song, by Harrison Solow:

 "First I wrote:

This is a story about love, but not about the kind of love that most people know about.  Children know about it, but then they forget when they grow up.  Grown-ups remember it sometimes in the night, but they don’t believe it in the morning. Old people know all about it but they can’t tell anyone because they also know you can’t really tell anyone anything. People have to find things out for themselves...

Then I crossed that out and wrote:

Storytellers usually say “Once upon a time” when they start to tell a story, which is a pretty good way to start. It tells you that there is a story coming and that it happened a long time ago. But how do you start to tell a story that keeps happening?”

And then I scrapped them both and started like this:"

harrison-solow's picture

Note from the author coming soon...

About Harrison

Dr. Harrison Solow’s writing awards include the Pushcart Prize for Literature (2008). She is published by Simon & Schuster, The University of California Press, Harper Collins, Carpe Articulum, AOL, Cinnamon Press, AGNI, The Pushcart Press and several others in the USA,...

Read full bio »

Published Reviews

Mar.23.2010

Praise for Felicity and Barbara Pym

"A splendid book! Original, controversial, academic, readable, serious, light-hearted, sensible, charming..." - Hazel Holt, Literary Executor of the Barbara Pym...