(O)
Published on 18. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-908376-98-5 (ISBN)
Description
Sophie Mayer's fourth published poetry collection, '(O)', is a bittersweet lovesong to zombies, tattoos, fathers and sisters, Katniss and Pussy Riot, Artemis and suffragists. In three parts - I DO, I UNDO, I REDO - the poet undoes herself and all around her in a cycle that takes her back to the start as it comes to an end. Spirited, politicised, contemporary and Classical, these poems bring a poetic voice to the women that have lived in the cracks of history. In her own words: "Nothing - and everything - is sacred in this new cosmogony, beginning again with O."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-908376-98-5 (9781908376985)
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Person
Sophie Mayer is a writer, editor and educator. Her poetry has been translated into Russian, Greek, Dutch, and Japanese, and has appeared on poster hoardings in Dublin and as part of Yoko Ono's Meltdown 2013. With Mark Burnhope and Sarah Crewe, she developed the recent wave of UK poetry activism, including the Sabotage Award-winning Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, Binders Full of Women, and Morning Star award-winning Fit to Work: Poets against Atos. She works with English PEN, and was the Archive of the Now's first Poet in Residence. Previous collections include Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009), The Private Parts of Girls (Salt, 2011), Kiss Off (Oystercatcher, 2011) and signs of the sistership (with Sarah Crewe, KFS, 2013). She is a film critic and scholar, author of The Cinema of Sally Potter, and (for the Oxford Handbook on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry), 'Cinema Mon Amour', the definitive essay on British poetry and film.
Content
In the Orchard of Pomegranates I DO SIGMAomicronphiiotaalpha my sister, my spouse auto-retrato como la casa azul Effulgent Your Tiny Sappho Lemniscate Little Red, Riding The Goblin King's Daughter Moomins, 1945 Membrane Verloren undone The Mystique Mutations I UNDO Silence, Singing Phylactery I am B) Sonneteratology Pearl, [what she is] oe'd Soy_agar.net Pearl Takes Bronze at the Cultural Paralympiad An Elegy for the Sonnet as Instrument of Torture Pearl's Dream of a Daddy State That Sonnet is an Anagram (Fragmentary) of Constellation Pearl, Dreaming, is a Tracey Emin Neon Hung at No. 10 omphalos Eau d' Shell Key Mure/x David's First Drafts #(3-1=)0:Bathsheba #-1: Jonathan # : God #1948: Goliath Words for It Observations on Living with a Hole in Your Side I I REDO On Wilds, and Woods Amiss Fiona Tan's Saint Sebastian (2001) Vagina After Hypatia Angria Pissing into the Wind: 2004 Ostrakoi All About Suffrage was Taught Under Mrs. Catt's Direction Penny for Them Londinos No Dragons But Fairies Water-Margin Pas de deux 'Under the same blue sky' Homeric Hymn to Artemis Where A= The Mayer