The Girl in the Dog-tooth Coat is Zelda Chappel’s debut poetry collection about loss and discovery. It’s about the ways we fold our days into a corner to hide from the best of ourselves. An astonishingly accomplished collection from an emerging poet to watch.
‘Elegant, beautiful, and full of longing, these poems linger and ache. Zelda Chappel writes with a cool clarity, yet allows you to feel a heartbeat behind every word. The Girl in the Dog-tooth Coat is a haunting collection you’ll want to return to again and again.’
Angela Readman
‘Inventive, reactive, brilliant — poems forged with tenderness, imagination and vision.’
Harry Man
‘There’s something about Zelda Chappel’s poetry that manages to pull back the skin and drive straight into the heart more beautifully and eloquently than most contemporary writers we’ve come across. That’s why she’s been published in popshot more times than anyone else.’
Jacob Denno (Popshot Magazine)
About Zelda Chappel
Zelda Chappel’s poetry has been widely published in both print and online journals with poems appearing in Obsessed with Pipework, Whisker, Eunoia Review, Lunar Poetry, Popshot, Bare Fiction, Prole, Hark Magazine, The Interpreter’s House and Ink, Sweat & Tears amongst many others.
In September 2014, her poem Another Twenty, Another Stone won the Battered Moons Poetry Competition, judged by David Morley. Her poetry was also nominated for this year’s Forward Prize.
Zelda is also sub-editor for Elbow Room, an on-going series of art journals and live events. Celebrating art in all guises each volume of Elbow Room is carefully curated to create an individual and cohesive collection. Produced in limited edition, hand bound pamphlets. A skill which Zelda will be putting to fantastic effect for one of our reward packages.
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