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- Herausgeber: The Emma Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Serie: The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
- Sprache: Englisch
You never know how things really are in other people's families, in other people's homes. There's the public face and the private truths – the personal griefs and tragedies, whether festering or resting in peace. In her wry, engagingly strange poems, Anne Bailey takes the door off the latch and lets us inside. She shows us loss and disappointment, as well as hardness and resilience, particularly through the eyes of a daughter, wife and mother. We see the domestic sphere in such close-up detail that it becomes bizarre, an uncanny dimension that nonetheless rings horribly, weirdly true. "So you've put a picture on the lovely blank wall that used to go pink in the sun and feel like an ice cream. A wall on which I used to rest my eyes in pleasant contemplation." - from 'Domestic'
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THEEMMAPRESS
First published in the UK in 2021 by The Emma Press Ltd.
Poems © Anne Bailey 2021.
All rights reserved.
The right of Anne Bailey to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN 978-1-912915-91-0
EPUBISBN 978-1-912915-92-7
A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.
Printed and bound in the UK by the Holodeck, Birmingham.
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CONTENTS
Going off and other kinds of default
I stare up at the house
Sudden death
The problem with magic
When the lake came
Concern for Mother
What I learnt about men
Dinky the budgerigar
Beyond these things
The little girl and the universe
Mind’s eye
For the record
My mother
How to get the most out of baking
Domestic
The sum of the parts
I Was Struck By Lightning While Ironing
Uses and abuses of the tea towel
Did she prefer life as a door?
A film of dust is how it starts
The Curator is married to the rain
Acknowledgements
