Trammel
Published on 3. October 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-908058-39-3 (ISBN)
Description
Urbane yet uncompromising, Trammel is the powerful debut collection from a voice that demands to be heard.
Voracious in her critique of modernity, Charlotte Newman ranges across the spectra of social and sexual politics - from Brexit to the Bechdel Test via Renaissance art and vintage computer games.
These poems are stylish, muscular and linguistically agile. Always driven by a musical engine, Newman weaves the hard language of politics, technology, finance, science and the law into a new lyric texture. Trammel is a radical book of poetry for an uncertain future.
Voracious in her critique of modernity, Charlotte Newman ranges across the spectra of social and sexual politics - from Brexit to the Bechdel Test via Renaissance art and vintage computer games.
These poems are stylish, muscular and linguistically agile. Always driven by a musical engine, Newman weaves the hard language of politics, technology, finance, science and the law into a new lyric texture. Trammel is a radical book of poetry for an uncertain future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Weight
128 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908058-39-3 (9781908058393)
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Person
Charlotte Newman was born in Surrey in 1986. She read English at Selwyn College, Cambridge and holds an MA with Distinction in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Birkbeck, University of London. She won the inaugural Sabotage Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet in 2013 and was featured in The Salt Book of Younger Poets in 2011.
After a brief stint indexing the entire back catalogue of The Erotic Review, she worked as a journalist and publicist for a leading family law firm, writing articles for national newspapers while also contributing freelance reviews to The Observer, The New Statesman and Poetry Review, among others; she was shortlisted for The Scotsman's Allen Wright Award for theatre criticism. Charlotte lives in London with her husband, the poet James Brookes, and works as a political communications consultant, specialising in healthcare. Trammel is her first full collection.
After a brief stint indexing the entire back catalogue of The Erotic Review, she worked as a journalist and publicist for a leading family law firm, writing articles for national newspapers while also contributing freelance reviews to The Observer, The New Statesman and Poetry Review, among others; she was shortlisted for The Scotsman's Allen Wright Award for theatre criticism. Charlotte lives in London with her husband, the poet James Brookes, and works as a political communications consultant, specialising in healthcare. Trammel is her first full collection.