Makeover E-Book

Laurie Bolger

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

Seitenzahl: 18

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Makeover is a book dripping with nostalgia, cigarette ash and sour cream dip. Lit by too-close TV screens and too-bright calorie counters, Bolger's poems explore growing up, differing bodies and societal expectations. Writing in praise of mums, nans and sisterhood, this is a work bursting with strength, anger, love and, ultimately, hope. In a celebration of girls shaped by swimming baths and Working Men's Clubs, friendship and family, Makeover contends with what we inherit and what we ought to pass on.

Leseprobe

PRAISEFORMAKEOVER

‘Laurie Bolger’s writing is a best friend, a memory, a picnic, a hug and a punch. “I want to live without weighing things” is maybe my favourite line of poetry this year, and definitely my new life motto. Stunning.’ – Hollie McNish

‘Intimate, warm, and with teeth-clenching wit, Bolger turns the domestic into an epic. Her leaps of surreality are breathtaking, unexpected and painful. Moving, tender and always curious, Makeover is a book that will hold your hand in the supermarket.’ – Joelle Taylor

POETRYPAMPHLETS

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

Accessioning, by Charlotte Wetton

Milk Snake, by Toby Buckley

Overlap, by Valerie Bence

POETRYCOLLECTIONS

Europe, Love Me Back, by Rakhshan Rizwan

SHORTSTORIESANDESSAYCOLLECTIONS

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

Parables, Fables, Nightmares, by Malachi McIntosh

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

How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart, by Florentyna Leow

Night-time Stories, edited by Yen-Yen Lu

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 Untameables, by Clare Pollard, illus. by Reena Makwana

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

Balam and Lluvia’s House, by Julio Serrano Echeverría, tr. from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel, illus. by Yolanda Mosquera

Na Willa and the House in the Alley, by Reda Gaudiamo, translated from Indonesian by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul and Kate Wakeling

For Nan

THEEMMAPRESS

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

Poems © Laurie Bolger 2024.

All rights reserved.

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

ISBN 978-1-915628-24-4

EPUBISBN 978-1-915628-25-1

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

Cover design by Amy Louise Evans.

Edited by James Trevelyan.