Dragonish E-Book

Emma Simon

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

Seitenzahl: 24

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Loss, love and various severed body parts are scattered throughout Dragonish. The poems are rooted in family, friends and home while also reaching into other worlds: the circus of possibilities, an earth-bound heavenly host, London's dryads and a nineteenth-century French brothel. Infused with a warm humour, tinged with darkness, the poems tempt the reader to peep beneath the surface of things.

Leseprobe

Dragonish

OTHERTITLESFROMTHEEMMAPRESS

POETRYANTHOLOGIES

The Emma Press Anthology of Dance

Slow Things: Poems about Slow Things

The Emma Press Anthology of Age

Mildly Erotic Verse

Urban Myths and Legends: Poems about Transformations

The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea

This Is Not Your Final Form: Poems about Birmingham

The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts (April 2017)

POETRYBOOKSFORCHILDREN

Falling Out of the Sky: Poems about Myths and Monsters

Watcher of the Skies: Poems about Space and Aliens

Moon Juice, by Kate Wakeling

The Noisy Classroom, by Ieva Flamingo (July 2017)

THEEMMAPRESSPICKS

The Emmores, by Richard O’Brien

The Held and the Lost, by Kristen Roberts

Captain Love and the Five Joaquins, by John Clegg

Malkin, by Camille Ralphs

DISSOLVE to: L.A., by James Trevelyan

Meat Songs, by Jack Nicholls

POETRYPAMPHLETS

If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women,

by Jacqueline Saphra and Mark Andrew Webber

AWOL, by John Fuller and Andrew Wynn Owen

True Tales of the Countryside, by Deborah Alma

Goose Fair Night, by Kathy Pimlott

Mackerel Salad, by Ben Rogers

Trouble, by Alison Winch

To Mum, who kept her books for me

Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish,

A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,

A towered citadel, a pendent rock,

A forkèd mountain, or blue promontory

With trees upon’t that nod unto the world

And mock our eyes with air.

Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 14

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THEEMMAPRESS

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by the Emma Press Ltd

Poems copyright © Emma Simon 2017

Introduction copyright © Caroline Bird 2017

All rights reserved.

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

ISBN 978-1-910139-64-6

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

Printed and bound in Great Britain

by Airdrie Print Services, Glasgow.

The Emma Press

theemmapress.com

[email protected]

Birmingham, UK

Introduction

It’s morning and as you drift up from sleep you linger for a moment, half-submerged inside a dream. This is the liminal space that Emma Simon’s poems occupy. Objects are animate. Time is tangible. Days can be plaited like braids, dismantled like tractors or flown like kites. If you tune your ears correctly, voices rise from unusual places: cockroaches, trees, tennis rackets, even the electronic scales speak a language of loss. These are not fanciful illusions, but dangerously real. Just as dreams reflect and comment upon our everyday lives, these poems weave their worlds from ordinary images, re-appropriated. Halos are looped through the wallpaper. Smiles run in the rain. Dragonish