--- product_id: 59137722 title: "Pelt" price: "AED 124" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 1 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/59137722-pelt store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Dark, uncanny themes Unforgettable poetic journey Debut collection by Sarah Jackson Pelt **Price:** AED 124 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“– Unlock the dark beauty of words with Pelt β€” poetry that haunts and stays. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Pelt - **How much does it cost?** AED 124 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/59137722-pelt) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Touch the intangible:** Poems crafted to be felt as much as read, blending tenderness with haunting imagery. - β€’ **Dive into the uncanny:** Experience poetry that lingers under your skin and challenges the everyday. - β€’ **Award-longlisted brilliance:** Discover a debut collection recognized by the Guardian First Book Award. - β€’ **Perfect for thoughtful readers:** Highly rated and ideal for those craving literary depth and emotional resonance. - β€’ **A journey through life’s edges:** From infancy to adulthood, explore unsettling domestic and surreal moments. ## Overview Pelt is Sarah Jackson’s debut poetry collection, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, featuring four parts of haunting, tender, and uncanny poems that explore themes from domestic life to surreal nightmares. This used book in good condition offers a striking literary experience praised for its emotional depth and unsettling beauty. ## Description Sarah Jackson explores the edges of writing in this uncanny book of touch. Tender, haunting, and yet beautifully poised, the poems in Pelt get right under your skin. Composed in four parts, the collection takes you on an unsettling journey between infancy and adulthood. Veering from birds to blindness, from hides to hiding, "Pelt" uncovers the unfamiliar in the everyday. "Pelt" is written in the dark. It asks to be read through your fingertips. Striking and elegant, subtle and yet full of desire, this is a brilliant debut. Review: Uncanny and unsettling - Reading Sarah Jackson's debut collection of poems is an unsettling experience. Immediately the reader is launched into a world in which the uncanny is always breaking through, when in a single line we realize we are in a nightmare. The first section of "Pelt" largely treats of domestic life, but these household scenes reveal strange and often monstrous fathers, mothers, and children. In 'Ten O'Clock Horses', a daughter describes the end of a family evening: "First he snuffs the lamp. / Then he snuffs my mother. / She lands softly, like teeth." After reading 'Old Fatty Knees', the title elicits feelings of dread, and the horror comes to a pitch in the final poem of the section, 'Revolution'. After these powerful opening poems, Part II came as something of disappointment, as the poems turned to more predictable subjects, mainly based around various foreign trips taken by the speaker. Personally, I felt that many of these poems, although not bad, could have been left out to create a stronger volume as a whole. The sections which follow however, are once more enjoyable and the uncanniness continues. In 'November' the speaker is held in some sort of institution, with the poem ending thus: Some days, I plan to break out, but they say the walls are solid bone reinforced with white paper. Besides, I've seen their binoculars. Instead, I curl up like a nut. Yesterday, I found if I drop things they make a noise but never break. Later, I'll drop myself from the ceiling. A poem of apocalypse begins: "It starts when the children go blackberrying, / return with mouths smeared with milk.", and finally the genteel details in the opening verse of 'Turn Out the Light' add to the horror: And the heron-man will be watching you sleep. His long fingers will twist your neck, peel your scalp with his silver butter knife. Slowly, he will draw out your dream and crack it open on the side of his blue china teacup. As a fan of writers such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Aickman, Sarah Jackson's world was bound to appeal to me. The power of her poetry, however, does not just reside in its unsettling nature. I also savoured her descriptions of more familiar actions such as a mother's thumb which is 'a pumicestone mouse smiling my cheek'. I discovered this book after it was longlisted for the 2012 Guardian First Book Award. It is collection which can be read and re-read with much pleasure and deserves a wide readership. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 3 Reviews | ## Images ![Pelt - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81qEHYNXSdL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Uncanny and unsettling *by E***R on 1 December 2012* Reading Sarah Jackson's debut collection of poems is an unsettling experience. Immediately the reader is launched into a world in which the uncanny is always breaking through, when in a single line we realize we are in a nightmare. The first section of "Pelt" largely treats of domestic life, but these household scenes reveal strange and often monstrous fathers, mothers, and children. In 'Ten O'Clock Horses', a daughter describes the end of a family evening: "First he snuffs the lamp. / Then he snuffs my mother. / She lands softly, like teeth." After reading 'Old Fatty Knees', the title elicits feelings of dread, and the horror comes to a pitch in the final poem of the section, 'Revolution'. After these powerful opening poems, Part II came as something of disappointment, as the poems turned to more predictable subjects, mainly based around various foreign trips taken by the speaker. Personally, I felt that many of these poems, although not bad, could have been left out to create a stronger volume as a whole. The sections which follow however, are once more enjoyable and the uncanniness continues. In 'November' the speaker is held in some sort of institution, with the poem ending thus: Some days, I plan to break out, but they say the walls are solid bone reinforced with white paper. Besides, I've seen their binoculars. Instead, I curl up like a nut. Yesterday, I found if I drop things they make a noise but never break. Later, I'll drop myself from the ceiling. A poem of apocalypse begins: "It starts when the children go blackberrying, / return with mouths smeared with milk.", and finally the genteel details in the opening verse of 'Turn Out the Light' add to the horror: And the heron-man will be watching you sleep. His long fingers will twist your neck, peel your scalp with his silver butter knife. Slowly, he will draw out your dream and crack it open on the side of his blue china teacup. As a fan of writers such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Aickman, Sarah Jackson's world was bound to appeal to me. The power of her poetry, however, does not just reside in its unsettling nature. I also savoured her descriptions of more familiar actions such as a mother's thumb which is 'a pumicestone mouse smiling my cheek'. I discovered this book after it was longlisted for the 2012 Guardian First Book Award. It is collection which can be read and re-read with much pleasure and deserves a wide readership. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/59137722-pelt](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/59137722-pelt) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-08-27*