Poacher E-Book

Lenni Sanders

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

Seitenzahl: 25

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Follow Lenni Sanders into the queasy and nocturnal world of Poacher, and be transformed. Here horror imagery and romantic lyricism combine to construct a new gothic world. These poems are eerie, thoughtful, bodily. They explore sexuality, and dreams and nightmares. They are full of devouring creatures. By turns tender and disgusting, Poacher creates and examines different, dynamic ways of wanting and longing. Influenced by magical realism and contemporary art, often wryly funny, the poems in Poacher place strange characters in mundane places – and are alive to the changes such friction and intimacy can cause.

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POACHER

OTHERTITLESFROMTHEEMMAPRESS

POETRYPAMPHLETS

Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real, by Padraig Regan

Paisley, by Rakhshan Rizwan

Elastic Glue, by Kathy Pimlott

Dear Friend(s), by Jeffery Sugarman

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

POETRYANTHOLOGIES

Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts

In Transit: Poems of Travel

Second Place Rosette: Poems about Britain

Everything That Can Happen: Poems about the Future

BOOKSFORCHILDREN

The Dog Who Found Sorrow, by Rūta Briede

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)

THEEMMAPRESS

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

Poems copyright © Lenni Sanders 2019

All rights reserved.

The right of Lenni Sanders to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted 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 978-1-912915-23-1

EPUBISBN 978-1-912915-24-8

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

Printed and bound in the UK

by Impact Print & Design, Hereford.

The Emma Press

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CONTENTS

Sheanimal

I’ll take them all

When it hurts this bad

Hinterlandcry

Helmut Newton Photograph 1976

horny old canal

Happily, we go under

no prettier

Helmut Newton Photograph 1982

Anteater kid

No bones, here

Helmut Newton Photograph 2004

His hands are Goliath birdeaters

The sickest platitude

This is the voice of the one in the dry place

Assassin bug, with ants

bug bite

Dumbstruck, the king

Acknowledgements

About the poet

About the Emma Press

Sheanimal

bed me in the dark ferns, soft earth

pebbles touch me hard

I have heard the clamour of nightfall birds

they are calling to you

I have seen the river toss in its bed

and shake for want of you

midges hover in their clouds

of hot silk shaking

above the crowded plants

we snap our jaws at them

rain, we will bring it

nest, burrow

we will and go

at our leisure

my teeth snapped that spine

I thought only of you darling

you darling my you

you will lick the blood off of me

tonight I sleep near you

come running thru deep puddles with me

in the morning after rain

shake dry with me

praise – ground that holds you up

praise – day your mother howled you out