# Self-Portrait in the Dark

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- Authors: [Colette Bryce](https://www.bookquiver.com/colette-bryce)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-04-20

## Description

The dark attunes our eyes to detail the light can sometimes conceal; similarly, Colette Bryce’s new poems are ‘slant tellings’ that reveal strange and true reflections. Using a wide range of imaginative strategies, Bryce examines the ways in which time is held, space enclosed – and a life framed and given meaning: a face in a broken mirror, a spider trapped under a glass, or a stolen kiss in a car-wash. Bryce’s two previous prize-winning collections were widely admired for their marvellously seductive music and their speed of thought; Self-Portrait in the Dark widens and deepens the poet’s scope, and is her most emotionally compelling collection to date. Praise for The Full Indian Rope Trick ‘[Bryce’s] poems, sensitive as the needle that registers some distant earth tremor, are delicately poised . . . Bryce’s vision is questing, disquieting, dark . . . as she seeks out the truths of life and love that transform the human heart. This is a confident, complex, subversive collection that shows us the magic by which one becomes a mature poet’ The Times

## Editions

### Self-Portrait in the Dark

- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-15-0983-908-7
- Pages: 64
- Published: 2017-04-20
- Language: en_GB