Stranger, Baby
Published on 31. January 2017
64 pages
978-0-571-33133-8 (ISBN)
Description
Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and often painful encounter with childhood loss. This is a book of mourning, recrimination, exhilaration and 'oceanic feeling': 'A meditation on a want that can never be answered.'
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,71 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-33133-8 (9780571331338)
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Person
Emily Berry's first book of poems is Dear Boy, which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Hawthornden Prize. She is a contributor to The Breakfast Bible (a compendium of breakfasts) and editor of Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt Publishing). She is the editor of The Poetry Review.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Sign of the Anchor
- Picnic
- Summer
- 'She had it'
- Tragedy for One Voice
- The End
- Winter
- Part
- Everything Bad Is Permanent
- Song
- Aqua
- Tidal Wave Speaks
- Now all my poems are about death I feel as though I'm really living
- New Project
- T
- So
- The photo that is most troubling is the one I don't want to show you
- Once
- Two Rooms
- Freud's War
- Freud's Beautiful Things
- Freud's Horses
- Freud's Loss
- Girl on a Liner
- Sleeping
- Drunken Bellarmine
- Flowers
- The Whole Show
- The degenerating anatomic structures of your body
- I have already said that the baby appreciates, perhaps from the very beginning, the aliveness of the mother
- Procession
- The Forms of Resistance
- Aura
- Ghost Dance
- Canopy
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
