The Fifth Day . . . And Other Bitesize Prose Poems

About the Book

Chieko Persimmons successfully utilises flexible genre of the prose poem, making out of ordinary experiences a rich and evocative meditation, with consistent warmth and humour. ‘This is a piquant, inventive collection’ (Roger Cardinal, art critic, emeritus professor, University of Kent). ‘These pieces reach for intangible’ (Patricia Debney, poet, Canterbury laureate, 2007–08). ‘One is reminded all at once of Zen Koans, Piet Hein, John Clare, and even Beckett’ (Todd McEwen, author of four novels, a former editor of Granta magazine).

About the Author

Born to a Siberian painter mother and a Japanese architect father, Chieko Persimmons was brought up in a German Catholic convent, and spent most of her adulthood in England. She was graduated from University of Kent, worked in economic research and financial strategy, travelled, married, and now lives in a Kentish farm with fruit orchards, fields, rabbits, foxes, woodpeckers, and the big open sky above them.