Menagerie E-Book

Cheryl Pearson

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: Art Squares
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Menagerie is a collection of poems about animals, divided into three sections: water, earth and air. Some poems examine a creature from close-up, almost allowing the reader to see the world through the animal's eyes, while the poet is more present in other poems, looking on. The collection invites the reader to reflect on loneliness, love, mortality, and hope. Each poem is typeset with plenty of space around it, allowing it to breathe. With stylised illustrations by Amy Evans. from "Octopus Tank, Torbay Aquarium" I saw a ribbon of starlings once – they rose and fell in that same way, tied and re-tied Rome in a bow, and I thought the knot at their centre must be God. Here is God again in this stranger, the colour coursing her billow and flop like a weather map crawling with storms.

Leseprobe

For my mum, Lynn, and my sister, Deb.

We three Peas x

THEEMMAPRESS

First published in the UK in 2020 by the Emma Press Ltd

Poems copyright © Cheryl Pearson 2020

Illustrations copyright © Amy Evans 2020

All rights reserved.

The right of Cheryl Pearson and Amy Evans to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work respectively has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 978-1-912915-38-5

EPUB ISBN: 978-1-912915-39-2

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

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

The Emma Press is an independent publisher dedicated to producing beautiful, thought-provoking books. It was founded in Winnersh in 2012 by Emma Dai’an Wright, and is now based in Birmingham. The Emma Press publishes themed poetry anthologies, single-author poetry and fiction chapbooks and books for children, with a growing list of translations. It was awarded funding from Arts Council England in 2020 through the Elevate programme, for diverse-led arts organisations to build resilience.

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CONTENTS

WATER

Consider the Seahorse

Octopus Tank, Torbay Aquarium

Hermit

Lobsters

A Comb Jellyfish Swallows Another Comb Jellyfish

Great White

EARTH

Gold In The Lion

Vixen

Blue Mole

Hardangervidda

Hedgehog

Marius

AIR

Peacock, Castle Howard

Magpie

Flamingo

Kingfisher

Fledgling

Owl Poem

Consider the Seahorse

We know him, some. Though he’s never run under

a harvest moon, or lipped stale scones from a palm.

See how he moors to eelgrass with his tail. How he

breathes in salt, not sun. He’s never mauled a weed

to stars or worn a shawl for cold. But he knows the mussel

and its labial folds, the jellyfish hauling its light. He sees

the blank-eyed great whites cruise like missiles. His body