Dear Friend(s) E-Book

Jeffery Sugarman

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

Seitenzahl: 24

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Animated by many different types of kinship, the poems in Dear Friend(s) explore webs of experience that wind between parents, extended families and friends. They will take readers back to powerful, often early influences, which result from relations of likeness and empathy as well as blood. The long title poem is an elegy – to a specific Dear Friend, dead from AIDS in its earliest years. It's also an elegy for the loss of innocence and freedom of sexual expression that flowed generously in the 1970s and 80s, in the UK and in the US.

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DEARFRIEND(S)

‘Poems of exceptional grace and wild sincerity...’—Fiona Sampson

‘Dear Friend(s) takes on poetry’s big subjects: sex, love and death, with an explosive panache. Formally and linguistically daring, these poems range from elegies written in the shadow of AIDS to tender love lyrics that offer both hope and healing. A gloriously original contribution to the growing canon of queer poetry.’—Jacqueline Saphra

‘Balancing survivor’s guilt with Whitmanesque strains of wonder, Dear Friend(s) is that rare thing—an elegy which engages with the potential failure of the elegy but ultimately goes on to revivify it; to ‘bring dead things to straining throats’. From the fireflies with their ‘savage air’, to the young man’s beard, ‘a biologically dead thing... marveled at’, to the spring lambs, ‘shreds of wool on wire barbs’, Sugarman’s is a poetic landscape of loss cut through with intense heat and longing.’—Richard Scott

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Paisley, by Rakhshan Rizwan

Elastic Glue, by Kathy Pimlott

Poacher, by Lenni Sanders

SHORTSTORIES

First fox, by Leanne Radojkovich

Postcard Stories, by Jan Carson

The Secret Box, by Daina Tabūna

Once Upon A Time In Birmingham, by Louise Palfreyman

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In Transit: Poems of Travel

Second Place Rosette: Poems about Britain

Everything That Can Happen: Poems about the Future

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The Head that Wears a Crown: Poems about Kings and Queens

The Girl Who Learned All the Languages Of The World, by Ieva Flamingo

Wain, by Rachel Plummer

The Adventures of Na Willa, by Reda Gaudiamo

POETRYANDARTSQUARES

AWOL, by John Fuller and Andrew Wynn Owen

Now You Can Look, by Julia Bird, illustrated by Anna Vaivare

The Goldfish, by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul, illustrated by Emma Wright (August 2019)

For Alan, my dearest

In memoriam

My parents, Samuel and Marilyn Sugarman,Lilly Mae White, Julienne Newham&Thomas Jahrling

THEEMMAPRESS

First published in the UK in 2019 by the Emma Press Ltd

Poems copyright © Jeffery Sugarman 2019

All rights reserved.

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

Edited by Charlotte Geater

Typeset by Emma Wright, in 18 pt Adobe Caslon Pro and 11.2 pt Minion Pro

ISBN 978-1-912915-18-7

EPUBISBN 978-1-912915-19-4

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

Printed and bound in the UK

by Impact Print & Design, Hereford.

The Emma Press

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CONTENTS

Between Dunes and Sea

Vagus (The Wanderer)

Dear Friend

Fireflies (Hudson River Valley)

Gallery—

I. Miniatures

II. Still Life with Peacocks