Forever Alive
Published on 1. July 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-0-9933311-8-3 (ISBN)
Description
A dramatic and enthralling new collection from acclaimed poet Fran Lock.
Forever Alive abounds in strange survivals: some enchanted, some obscene. A she-wolf haunts the site of her extinction, a soldier is troubled by sleepless fear of the desert; a murdered woman visits her husband with whispered curses. Here, nature extends both the threat and the promise of return. These are poems of long grudge and obscure supernatural vengeance. They are also poems about the love - of language, place, and people - that endures despite everything.
Forever Alive abounds in strange survivals: some enchanted, some obscene. A she-wolf haunts the site of her extinction, a soldier is troubled by sleepless fear of the desert; a murdered woman visits her husband with whispered curses. Here, nature extends both the threat and the promise of return. These are poems of long grudge and obscure supernatural vengeance. They are also poems about the love - of language, place, and people - that endures despite everything.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-9933311-8-3 (9780993331183)
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Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and nine poetry collections, most recently Hyena! Jackal! Dog! (Pamenar Press, 2021). Fran is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters where she recently edited The Cry of the Poor: An anthology of radical writing about poverty (2021); she edits the Soul Food column for Communist Review, and is a member of the new editorial advisory board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Together with Hari Rajaledchumy, Fran recently completed work on Leaving, an English translation of poems by the Sri Lankan Tamil poet Anar (Poetry Translation Centre, 2021). Fran teaches at Poetry School and hides out in Kent with her beloved pit bull and eternal muse, Manny.