The Bone Library
Published on 1. September 2022
98 pages
978-1-78885-521-1 (ISBN)
Description
These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout.
In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved.
Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author's time as writer-in-residence there, this is a vivid exploration that is honest and searching and cuts to the very core of what it is to be alive.
In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved.
Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author's time as writer-in-residence there, this is a vivid exploration that is honest and searching and cuts to the very core of what it is to be alive.
Reviews / Votes
'Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life.' -- Toni Velikova, Scottish Poetry Library 'Excels in moments of tenderness, [and] tends to shine most in its wit' -- Stuart Kelly * The Scotsman * 'Stunning... the vocabulary alone is so vivid, so visceral, and we feel it in the poem that gives the book its title' * BBC Radio Scotland Afternoon Show * 'A stunning new collection' * Scots Magazine * 'As brilliant, as sensual, as vivid and as thought-provoking as all the rest of her poetry' * Ileach * 'Powerful and gritty writing that reflects many aspects of twenty-first century life' -- Peter B. Freshwater * University of Edinburgh Journal *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
File size
1,18 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78885-521-1 (9781788855211)
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Jenni Fagan
The Bone Library
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09/2022
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Person
Jenni Fagan is an award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, essayist and a playwright, and was writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. She is the author of The Panopticon (2012), The Sunlight Pilgrims (2015) and her first poetry collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was published by Polygon in 2016, followed by There's a Witch in the Word Machine (2018).
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- I'm Not a Fossil, You Are a Curio
- The Nineteen Thirties House
- Who Are You?
- On the Files
- The Bone Library
- The Truth is Old and It Wants to Go Home
- Summerhall Almanac
- The Good Stuff
- I Know Who I Am
- Dear Beetle of Our Lady
- Workshop, Day One
- St Mary's Street
- 9A
- Digital Bones
- Fir Tom Leonard
- House With a Porch of Four Seasons
- Even When You Don't Think You Are
- Who Did Duchamp?
- It Was an Ex-Council House on the Sea Wall, Graffiti All Over It
- I Told Her
- I Was Talking to Will
- Mary Dick
- Monkey Love Experiment
- Morning Rituals
- One Day We Notice the Way Our Partner Eats and Are Irritated Beyond All Belief
- Good Art
- Your Sexts Are Shit
- Pale Blue Eyes
- The Daily Death
- Penrose Stairs
- It's After All of Us
- Social Ouija
- When the Reptiles Came
- The Australian
- The Death of Compliments
- The Devil
- The Expectations of Others
- The Pivot
- Tim Hecker
- Tattooed Man
- So
- A note on the author
