“The Anchoress processes grief in its many forms on the determined and rapturous The Art of Losing”
“As a drawn-to-the-dark teen, the Welsh singer-songwriter Catherine Anne Davies, AKA the Anchoress, subscribed to the notion that great art must be born of pain. Recent times brought her unwelcome opportunity to thoroughly test the theory: the death of her father, the loss of several pregnancies, and a cervical cancer diagnosis. Her second album dramatises the fight to pull some meaning clear. The”
“The Anchoress’ – real name Catherine Anne Davies – second album borrows its title from ‘One Art’ by American writer Elizabeth Bishop, an ironic poem that entertains the idea that weathering grief gets easier with practice. “Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent,” Bishop writes, “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” Of course it’s not really true ”
