Mother Night E-Book

Serge ♆ Neptune

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

Seitenzahl: 15

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Mother Night is a hallucinogenic journey across a city with too many alleyways and across a life surviving childhood sexual assault. Forming a nocturnal séance, Serge ♆ Neptune resurrects abusive old lovers and ghosts of the queers of the past – conjures men in cars and men in bedrooms – providing them invitation and shelter, or casting them to stormy waves. In a book of many types of darkness – across poems of vulnerability and harm – what persists in Mother Night is its celebration of resilience, what shines brightest is the many ways it reaches for the light.

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PRAISE FOR MOTHER NIGHT

‘Holding their spaces open to the unruly, the poems of Mother Night form wryly tender receptacles of the raw, queer experience. Beginning in adversity and challenge, as pills perform a “rose-gold attempt/ to ease/ a sledge-hammer thought”, we are led backwards down through layers of lovers, and predators, to the seven-year-old place where life ends, and then must restart.

‘Creating a language to explore the long aftermath of childhood sexual abuse, Serge Neptune’s courageous, crucial work is also a song of healing and self-reclamation, that closes by asking us to “remember desire      is a holy spring.”’

— Alice Hiller

‘Serge Neptune’s nocturnes and lyrics are audacious, undeniable, and striking. What has scarred the flesh, what has charged the flesh pulses in these poems. The language itself is visceral, deftly wrought. In Mother Night, the body is a constellation of sensations and experiences. This chapbook announces the arrival of an immensely gifted poet.’

— Eduardo C. Corral

POETRYPAMPHLETS

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

Makeover, by Laurie Bolger

Accessioning, by Charlotte Wetton

Milk Snake, by Toby Buckley

POETRYCOLLECTIONS

Europe, Love Me Back, by Rakhshan Rizwan

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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

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

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