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- Herausgeber: The Emma Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Serie: The Emma Press Picks
- Sprache: Englisch
A fascinating pamphlet of love poems all themed around the poet's single object of desire. In this beautifully illustrated collection, Richard O'Brien deploys every trick in the love poet's book, resulting in a irresistible mix of tender odes, introspective sonnets, exuberant free verse and anthems of sexual persuasion. The poems plunge from ecstasy into melancholy from couplet to couplet, and the book as a whole stands as a defiant sally against the pressures of long-distance relationships. Loosely inspired by the Roman poet Ovid's Amores. Lincolnshire poet Richard O'Brien studied English and French at Oxford University and hosted an English-language radio show on EU Radio Nantes after graduating in 2012. He is now studying Shakespeare and Creativity at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. His first pamphlet, your own devices, was published by tall-lighthouse press in 2011, as part of the Pilot series for British and Irish poets under 30. His work has since featured in Poetry London, the Erotic Review, The Salt Book of Younger Poets and The Best British Poetry 2013. His blog, The Scallop-Shell, is dedicated to the close reading of contemporary poetry and he recently performed his poems at the BBC Proms Lates. His second full pamphlet, A Bloody Mess, will be published by Ink Lines (an imprint of Valley Press) towards the end of 2013.
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* * *The Emmores
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Love poems by Richard O’Brien
Illustrations by Emma Wright
Dedication
For Emma
Epigraph
‘Jove send me more such afternoons as this.’
– All Ovid’s Elegies, i.5, translated by Christopher Marlowe
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2014 by the Emma Press Ltd
Poems copyright © Richard O’Brien 2014
Illustrations copyright © Emma Wright 2014
All rights reserved.
The right of Richard O’Brien to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
eISBN 978-1-910139-48-6
Print ISBN 978-0-9574596-4-9
A CIP catalogue record of this book
is available from the British Library.
theemmapress.com
Contents
Title page
Dedication
Epigraph
Copyright page
1. Fragments from an Aubade
Illustration 1
2. The Smell of Apples
3. Magician’s Assistant
4. Desire Path
Illustration 2
5. Scintillometry
6. Then Came Corinna
Illustration 3
7. Bed Trick
8. Poem for the Julian Calendar
Illustration 4
9. High Striker
10. ‘There are many great reasons to make a rubber band ball...’
Illustration 5
11. Missing the Perseids
12. Campsite
13. Contract
Illustration 6
14. Lemman
Illustration 7
Acknowledgements
About the poet and illustrator
About the Emma Press
Also from the Emma Press
Fragments from an Aubade
Gather nothing up.
Don’t stand and stumble
on unsteady legs
into new knickers.
Let the sunlight beg.
[illustration 1]
The Smell of Apples
‘And beyond these isles there is another isle that is clept Pytan. The folk of that country ne till not, ne labour not the earth, for they eat no manner thing. [...] These men live by the smell of wild apples. And when they go any far way, they bear the apples with them; for if they had lost the savour of the apples, they should die anon.’ – The Book of Sir John Mandeville
O give me the thread from the hem of your dress
that you caught in St James’s Park
