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- Herausgeber: The Emma Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Serie: The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
- Sprache: Englisch
In a sequence of poems set in the mountainous Deep South of America, Dawn Watson vividly evokes an ominous landscape of gas stations, jackrabbits and drifting hawks, where copperhead snakes fall out of branches and 'magnolia cones / thum[p] the roofs' of wooden outhouses. These poems, based on the writer's time spent in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, are interwoven with pieces set in the poet's native Belfast which speak urgently to the raw realities of sexuality, juvenile detention, and the Irish border. Many poems feature speakers driving from place to place, capturing the in-between states in which so much of experience is actually lived. Precise and strange images coalesce into physical and interior landscapes. Alternately surreal and direct, and always joyously inventive, Watson offers a clear and unsettling vision of what is and isn't there in these anxious, contemporary times.
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First published in the UK in 2019 by the Emma Press Ltd
Poems copyright © Dawn Watson 2019
All rights reserved.
The right of Dawn Watson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Edited by Richard O’Brien
Typeset by Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-912915-33-0
EPUB ISBN 978-1-912915-32-3
A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.
Printed and bound in the UK by Impact Print & Design, Hereford.
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CONTENTS
How To Kill Snakes with a Slipper
Peach Season
The Boxer
Yellow Punkins on the Oolenoy
Chicken Wings
Don’t Shoot, Sir
Bird on the School Path
Advice for Campers
At the Gas Station
We Can Chat About It by Teletext Which I Know Is Impossible
The M1 to Belfast
Heading Home to East Tennessee via the Town of Bat Cave
Non-Biological Motherhood in Euclidean Terms
The Sun is One Inch Above the Horizon
Hello, I Am Alive
Acknowledgements
About the poet
About the Emma Press
How To Kill Snakes with a Slipper
RED TOUCH BLACK, LUCKY JACK.YELLOW ON RED, SOON BE DEAD—US Deep South folk rhyme, 1862
She cuts the grass at the liquor store.
This is Pop Kola. This is Old Gold.
It’s hard to see where the lawn ends
and the pine straw starts. Cypress plumb
