Hand Over Mouth Music

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Winner of the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year 2019. Janette Ayachi’s dazzling first collection moves between remembered and imagined spaces as she celebrates the world’s variousness, and the energies and exhaustions of the body. Revelling in the many voices she might find for herself, Ayachi locates herself in both her Algerian and Scottish roots, her relationships with her family and lovers, her own motherhood, and an equally joyful but more precarious exploration of desire. More than anything, this book is a celebration of all Ayachi loves and has loved, especially her own daughters. It is a book that makes a space for itself in the disruptive pleasures of writing, in the face of all that might stifle her, alive to all the potentials of laughter and silence as well as song.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-30
Mått:118 x 189 x 8 mm
Vikt:113 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pavilion Poetry
Antal sidor:62
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781786942142

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Janette Ayachi is a London-born, Edinburgh-based, Scottish-Algerian poet. She graduated with a Combined BA Honours in English Literature & Film Media from Stirling University and an MSc in Creative Writing from Edinburgh University. She’s a regular on BBC Scotland arts programmes and her work has been translated into several languages across a broad range of journals and anthologies. Her debut poetry book 'Hand Over Mouth Music' (Pavilion) won the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Literary Award 2019 and she is now working on her travel memoir 'Lonerlust'. She collaborates with artists and works with poetry in public places, as well as regularly performing spoken word at festivals and events internationally.

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'Janette Ayachi unpacks a glittering word-hoard. Her poems range from her Algerian Heritage, including a problematic relationship with her father, to the birth of her daughters, and the ageing and deaths of relatives. These subjects aren’t kept apart but flow into one another, and running through them all, like an electric current, are frank, joyful celebrations of desire… Characters are brought to life within their own cultural orbs… The gorgeousness of Ayachi’s language, its multitude of vivid details, sweep the reader along. Dorothy Yamamotot, Artemis Poetry