After the Rites and Sandwiches E-Book

Kathy Pimlott

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 23

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Centred on a sudden accidental death – its shocking actuality, the aftermath, the admin – Kathy Pimlott's third pamphlet is an honest, lyrical and nuanced journey through the complexity of bereavement. As the world around her continues on - moths remain attracted to lights, Christmas comes and goes - Pimlott lives with the irreplaceable absence that follows the loss of a partner. Amid the pain and emotion is a streak of wry humour at the mundanity of settling affairs and a powerfully personal trajectory of moving through grief rather than moving on. Across poems that take stock of the things people leave behind and the sometimes-painful memories of a long and textured marriage, After the rites and sandwiches tracks the rollercoaster of grief, guilt and regret without losing sight of the enduring salve of love.

Leseprobe

PRAISE FOR AFTER THE RITES AND SANDWICHES

‘Heartfelt but clear-eyed and technically assured, this is a powerful and moving collection by a remarkable poet writing in extremis.’—Peter Sansom

‘More than a distilled exploration of the mechanisms and processes of grief, here is a sequence of elegies that double as love poems, dissecting with painstaking precision a long and complex relationship. Shot through with Pimlott’s trademark combination of the quotidian and transcendent, this musical and metaphor-rich work will – in the best possible way – break your heart.’—Jacqueline Saphra

POETRYPAMPHLETS

Mother Night, by Serge Neptune

In the Name of Red, by Z. R. Ghani

Makeover, by Laurie Bolger

Accessioning, by Charlotte Wetton

POETRYCOLLECTIONS

Daughter of the Sun, by Rachel Spence

Europe, Love Me Back, by Rakhshan Rizwan

ESSAYCOLLECTIONS

Bound: A Memoir of Making and Remaking, by Maddie Ballard

How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart, by Florentyna Leow

Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai, by Nina Mingya Powles

SHORTSTORYCOLLECTIONS

About Us, by Reda Gaudiamo, translated from Indonesian by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul and Phillipa Barker

Parables, Fables, Nightmares, by Malachi McIntosh

Blood & Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood, edited by Abi Curtis

ARTSQUARES

The Strange Egg, by Kirstie Millar, illus. by Hannah Mumby

The Fox’s Wedding, by Rebecca Hurst, illus. by Reena Makwana

Pilgrim, by Lisabelle Tay, illustrated by Reena Makwana

One day at the Taiwan Land Bank Dinosaur Museum, written and illustrated by Elīna Eihmane

BOOKSFORCHILDREN

The Skeleton in the Cupboard, by Lilija Berzinska, translated from Latvian by Žanete Vēvere Pasqualini and Sara Smith

The Untameables, by Clare Pollard, illus. by Reena Makwana

Eggenwise, by Andrea Davidson, illus. by Amy Louise Evans

For Robert (1953-2021), without whom

THEEMMAPRESS

First published in the UK in 2024 by The Emma Press Ltd.

Poems © Kathy Pimlott 2024.

Cover artwork © Mark Andrew Webber 2024.

All rights reserved.

The right of Kathy Pimlott to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 978-1-915628-32-9

EPUBISBN 978-1-915628-33-6

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

Edited and typeset by Emma Dai’an Wright.

Printed and bound in the UK by the Holodeck, Birmingham.

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CONTENTS

Prologue: First Date

No shock advised

How to be a widow

Death Admin I

After the rites and sandwiches

Death Admin II

There isn’t a ghost

And then that first Christmas

Interior décor

Looking for a cure in parks and gardens

Since you fell downstairs and died

Stuffed Monkey

What I do with you now you’re dead

The sort of thing we did together of a Sunday

Not like that

The Passing Visit