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Carrie Etter

“The Last Photograph” will appear in Carrie Etter‘s fifth collection, Grief’s Alphabet (Seren Books, 2024). The recipient of grants from Arts Council England and the Society of Authors, Etter has lived in the UK since 2001 and is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Bristol.

  • The Last Photograph

    a golden shovel on the opening line of Gwendolyn Brooks’ “To Prisoners”

  • Plait

    When I first knotted my hair against the coming of winter, I had grown tired of playing jacks and didn’t yet find boys

  • Song a Year After My Mother’s Death

    I allowed a small song

  • Fat

    I saw that I was fat and walked and walked toward a desert only to find a case of (not light) beer.