Bear
Published on 25. May 2017
61 pages
978-1-78037-333-1 (ISBN)
Description
?The lively 'bears' in this playful and poignant collection will surprise you on every page. They are poems of love and death, life, loss and grief. The ephemera of popular culture is used to confront mortality, and you'll be transported from the British Library to the Alps to the International Space Station, along with a vibrant cast of Vikings, videogames and Angela Lansbury. From the ludicrous to the domestic, these profound, wry and very real bears affirm that hope may be found even in our darkest moments. Chrissy Williams has published several pamphlets, one of which was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Bear is her first book-length collection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tarset
United Kingdom
File size
0,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78037-333-1 (9781780373331)
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Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor based in London. Her work has been featured by the BBC and her first book-length collection Bear (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) was one of the Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year. The author of numerous pamphlets, her work has been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award, and published in many magazines and anthologies including Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry London and Salt's Best British Poetry series. She is editor of the online poetry journal PERVERSE. She is also an improviser and edits comics, including the New York Times bestselling The Wicked + The Divine. Her second book-length collection, Low, is due from Bloodaxe in 2021.
Content
- Intro
- Description
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Bear of the Artist
- LOVE
- Gone
- Robot Unicorn Attack
- JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION in the Spring
- The Lost
- Green Lake
- Bliss
- Sonnet for Zookeeper
- On Getting Boney M's Cover of 'Mary's Boy Child' by Harry Belafonte Stuck in My Head
- Sheep
- from Groundhog Day
- The art of editing
- Poem in Which I Respond to Notes Pencilled into the Margins of Ian Hamilton Finlay's Selections
- Bedroom Filled With Foam
- Wet Days Are the Worst
- Over Dave's Trousers
- Jam Trap
- Where Have You Put the Wine?
- Four Hours Away
- Digital Ghost Towns
- Reading Your Comics in Eype
- The Burning of the Houses
- Menagerie Speeches
- Bird Talk
- Post
- There Is an Epigraph
- Moorhens
- Art Imitates Life, but Life Imitates TV
- Murder, She Wrote
- Manifesto Based on Notes from Lars von Trier's Five Obstructions
- Tigers
- Tin Can Odyssey
- Go
- The Invisible Bear
- Stage Directions for The Dog Always Wins
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright
