Titanic E-Book

Bridget Minamore

• Herausgeber: Out-Spoken Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 13

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

In this debut pamphlet, acclaimed poet Bridget Minamore explores the sensibilities surrounding love, loss, and the subsequent struggles we all face at some point in our relationships. Themed around a series of popular songs and a certain sinking ship, Minamore riffs from poem to poem with a choice selection of humorous and somber verse.

Leseprobe

First Edition

Copyright © Out-Spoken Press 2016

First published in 2016 by Out-Spoken Press

Design & Art DirectionBen Lee

Printed & Bound by:Print Resources

Typeset in Baskerville

ISBN: 978-0-9931038-5-8

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any other means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author.

Foreword

I first came across Bridget Minamore’s poetry as a judge for the 2009 Roundhouse Poetry Slam. Minamore’s refreshing take on the world and the way she combined a number of different registers in her writing made it clear to me that she was a poet to watch. In the intervening years, the hybrid quality of those early poems has been carefully honed creating a poetics that is supple enough to be responsive to the contemporary sphere while also pulling of that ancient magic to which all poetry aspires: stopping time to hold a moment still on the page.

The work collected in Titanic is both a riff on the common stock of popular culture and a wonderfully unsettling excavation of how it feels to love:

I want to cut your legs of

not so you can’t walk away,

more in the hope you’ll stay

exactly where I want to put you. (‘Against All Odds’)