A lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood - the debut work of an endlessly inventive poet whose work 'fizzes with energy, physicality, and the levitating openness of song' (Rebecca Tamas)
**Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize**
**Selected as a book of the year by the Financial Times and Telegraph**
'An essential read, poignant, powerful and provocative. I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems' Salena Godden
Amy Acre's debut collection is an unforgettable, unflinching excavation of motherhood, what it means to be a female artist, and what it means to be a poet with a deeply integrated community. This is a timeless work the like of which we haven't seen enough of in the past, primed to last long into the future.
'Amy Acre is one of the best poets of her generation. Pure cinema, raw heart, and unparalleled technique. Read this' Joelle Taylor, winner of the 2021 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry
'Mothers, daughters, lovers, all the thrilling complexity of love and grief that the body must bear; these are poems which set the page aglow and make my heart spin' Liz Berry, winner of the 2018 Forward Prize for Poetry
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Mothersong is an essential read, it is poignant, powerful and provocative. I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems, this timeless vulnerability, this ripe truth, these pieces are beautiful, evocative, and everlasting -- Salena Godden Amy Acre's powerful collection explores contemporary parenthood and the memory of a childhood marked by grief ... These poems are graced by an exquisite diction and enlightening observation * Irish Times * Acre's debut collection, takes readers through the frightening, wearying, ecstatic experience of becoming a mother * Daily Telegraph * Amy Acre is one of the best poets of her generation. Pure cinema, raw heart, and unparalleled technique. Read this -- Joelle Taylor Amy Acre's poems are electric. They crackle and spark with wild feeling, inventiveness and deep sensuality. Mothers, daughters, lovers, all the thrilling complexity of love and grief that the body must bear; these are poems which set the page aglow and make my heart spin -- Liz Berry Expansive and risk-taking * Guardian * This debut collection from the London-born poet is confident, witty and a little addictive. As the title suggests, these poems explore motherhood and mother loss, in verse that manages to be both playfully frenzied and movingly intimate. * Financial Times, Books of the Year *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Höhe: 195 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 9 mm
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978-1-5266-5069-6 (9781526650696)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Amy Acre is a poet and freelance writer from London, and the editor of Bad Betty Press. Her pamphlets And They Are Covered in Gold Light and Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads were each chosen as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poem 'every girl knows' won the 2019 Verve Poetry Competition. She featured on The Last Dinosaur's 2020 track, 'In The Belly of a Whale', streamed over 600,000 times on Spotify. In 2021, she wrote and recorded Radio 4's The Ballad of the Bet - a BBC Pick of the Week. Her work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, bath magg, DIVA, PERVERSE, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, The Scores, The White Review and elsewhere. Mothersong is her first collection.
