The Bell Tower E-Book

Pamela Crowe

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

Seitenzahl: 19

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Acerbic, precise and very funny, Pamela Crowe's poems explore home life and relationships in a delightfully forthright voice. Secret frustrations and anxieties are aired and private fantasies brought into the light, as odes blur into diatribes and psychodramas become love poems. Woven throughout The Bell Tower is a love of Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and – above all – Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones. These are fierce, acutely observed poems that give weight to domestic minutiae and put words to helpless howls into the abyss. You, the cloud. Oh look! there you are, blobbing along as if you're best friends with rain and thunder is your dad. Fuck off. - excerpt from 'Cloudcunt'

Leseprobe

THEBELLTOWER

POETRYPAMPHLETS

how the first sparks became visible, by Simone Atangana

Bekono, tr. from Dutch by David Colmer

do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom, by Rachael Matthews

With others in your absence, by Zosia Kuczyńska

Sandsnarl, by Jon Stone

This House, by Rehema Njambi

is, thinks Pearl, by Julia Bird

What the House Taught Us, by Anne Bailey

Overlap, by Valerie Bence

The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising, by Jack Houston

Ovarium, by Joanna Ingham

Milk Snake, by Toby Buckley

SHORTSTORIES

The Secret Box, by Daina Tabūna, tr. from Latvian by Jayde Will

Tiny Moons: A year of eating in Shanghai, by Nina Mingya Powles

Postcard Stories 2, by Jan Carson

Hailman, by Leanne Radojkovich

BOOKSFORCHILDREN

My Sneezes Are Perfect, by Rakhshan Rizwan

The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me: A Book of Insect Poems

Cloud Soup, by Kate Wakeling

ARTSQUARES

Menagerie, by Cheryl Pearson, illustrated by Amy Evans

One day at the Taiwan Land Bank Dinosaur Museum, written and illustrated by Elīna Eihmane

Pilgrim, by Lisabelle Tay, illustrated by Reena Makwana

The Fox’s Wedding, by Rebecca Hurst, illus. by Reena Makwana

To any Bridgets out there

THEEMMAPRESS

First published in the UK in 2022 by The Emma Press Ltd.

Poems © Pamela Crowe 2022.

All rights reserved.

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

ISBN 978-1-912915-99-6

EPUBISBN 978-1-915628-04-6

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

Cover design by Amy Louise Evans.

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

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CONTENTS

150 words as I wait for a tree to grow back (I)

socks

Cloudcunt

Into the fields

Length

150 words as I wait for a tree to grow back (II)

Cat Stretch

Co-minting

Love letter halloumi

Sea

Stirring

150 words as I wait for a tree to grow back (III)

Helen from Reprographics

All the boys go soft and sad

Chiroptera

Fix

Ways in which I am Darcy

150 words as I wait for a tree to grow back (IV)