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Herausgeber: Penned in the Margins
Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain. Sunshine; combines acute social observation with a dark, surreal humour born of first-hand experience. Abuse, addiction and mental health are all subject to Lee-Houghton's poetic eye. But these are also poems of extravagance, hope and desire, that stake new ground for the Romantic lyric in an age of social media and internet porn. In this new book of poems, Melissa Lee-Houghton shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision.

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SUNSHINE

Melissa Lee-Houghton was announced as a Next Generation Poet in 2014. Her first and second collections are published by Penned in the Margins. Beautiful Girls was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poem ‘i am very precious’ was shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She has received a Northern Writers’ Award for her fiction. She lives in Blackburn, Lancashire.

PRAISEFORMELISSALEE-HOUGHTON

‘Melissa Lee-Houghton is a bold, observant and daringly honest poet who intuitively knows what she is doing, even when she ventures into the scariest places.’

Poetry Book Society

‘These unflinching poems feel as if they wrote themselves and have the compelling quality of a great novel. At times the language becomes rhapsodic, though there is always a lyrical grace and adroitness, and an intense but careful control.’

Pascale Petit

‘Melissa Lee-Houghton holds a mirror to our mouths and teaches us how to breathe so that it hurts like hell.‘

Abegail Morley

ALSOBYMELISSALEE-HOUGHTON

Beautiful Girls (Penned in the Margins, 2013)

A Body Made of You (Penned in the Margins, 2011)

PUBLISHEDBYPENNEDINTHEMARGINS

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The right of Melissa Lee-Houghton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Penned in the Margins.

First published 2016

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978-1-908058-59-3

Print ISBN

978-1-908058-38-6

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

And All The Things That We Do I Could Face Today

Videos

You Can Watch Me Undress

The Price You See Reflects the Poor Quality of the Item and Your Lack of Desire for It

Loneliness

Letter to Dr. Ali Concerning Our Suicide Pact

Letter to Dr. Moosa Regarding My Inconstant Heart

Hangings

Mouth

i am very precious

Woodlea

Cobra

Sunshine

My Girl

Blue Prelude

A Good Home

Love-Smitten Heart

Wishlist

Beautiful Bodies

Last Trip

Hella

Elm Street

Samson Beach

Mad Girl in Love

He Cried Out To the God of Austerities Who Said On the Seventh Day You Shall Tax, Pillage and Burn

Hope

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Melissa gratefully acknowledges the support of the Royal Literary Fund and the JB Priestley Award. She thanks the British Council for enabling her to visit India. The poems ‘And All the Things That We Do I Could Face Today’, ‘Loneliness’ and ‘Last Trip’ were recorded for The Poetry Archive. ‘You Can Watch Me Undress’ was first published in the anthology Glitter is a Gender (Contraband Books, 2014). ‘Z’, ‘Beautiful Bodies’ and ‘Mad Girl in Love’ were first published in The Rialto. ‘Hangings’ was first published in Proletarian Poetry. ‘i am very precious’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem; it was first published in Prac Crit and subsequently in the anthology Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt Publishing, 2015). ‘The Price You See Reflects The Poor Quality Of The Item And Your Lack Of Desire For It’ was published in Granta. ‘He Cried Out To the God of Austerities Who Said On the Seventh Day You Shall Tax, Pillage and Burn’ was published in The Morning Star.

With thanks to Tom Chivers, whose continual support has enabled these books to reach an audience. Thanks also to Steven Houghton, for keeping me alive.

NOTES

‘And All the Things That We Do I Could Face Today’ is a lyric from ‘If Only It Were True’ by The Walkmen. The line ‘the caves of your sex’ in the poem ‘i am very precious’ is taken from ‘By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept’ by Elizabeth Smart.

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