Milk Fever

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Milk Fever is a prize-winning first collection from a new voice in contemporary British poetry. The poet’s former career as a television scriptwriter for young adults is evident in the fresh, unguarded and intimate address that moves seamlessly between tenderness and brutality in poems largely concerning experiences of motherhood: the joy, the passion and the delight of this unique mother-child dyad paired with shadowy twins – terror, despair and rage. The poems are urgent and sensual, even when mothers are not human beings: an eagle, a copper mine and a windmill are all given a maternal voice in a collection which searches the world for reunion with a lost other; a lost mother perhaps, or as in the Persephone and Demeter myth, a lost daughter. The poems travel through Chile, Italy, Russia, ancient Greece, Argentina and France in an attempt to explore the timeless and universal relationship, or variants of it, we all have with our mothers, the relationship that is the blueprint for all our future relationships. This is a collection for, against and about mother, for all that she is and everything we try to pretend she isn’t.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-27
Mått:129 x 198 x 10 mm
Vikt:100 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Salt Modern Poets
Antal sidor:84
Förlag:Salt Publishing
ISBN:9781844719679

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Kaddy Benyon is the author of Milk Fever, winner of the Crashaw Prize. She was born in Cambridge and grew up in Suffolk. A former television scriptwriter, she currently works for the University of Cambridge mentoring students with disabilities. She is a Granta New Poet and her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies.

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Benyon can produce truly startling metaphors (like “the ticking crucifixion” of Mother as a Windmill) and her talent for earthy language lends itself well to the erotic in pieces such as Poem #87, Call it Love and (Not) Penelope’s Web. She is a new poet worth watching.

Innehållsförteckning

RiptideFitzwilliam SelkieMamanCuttingsBe Prepared to BleedPomegranate & PinStrange FruitMemory in RedMilk FeverIce FishingNight PiratePalm HouseHoly Water (I)CopperingMine or Pachamama’s Empty NestFirekeepersLos NinosSun VirginBoyLightning GirlThe Death CollectorMy American ParentsPoem #87Our LadyHoly Water (II)CommunionCall it LoveMummySiriusCold Dark MatterAmong WomenYour QuestionConfessionConfirmationBody LanguageMummy Bare LegsLocal HistoryMarthaHoly Water (III)Cradle CapHairballThe Desk at VarykinoThe Wolves at VarykinoIce RecitalEver AfterCamera ObscuraAgainMother as a WindmillHoly Water (IV)Loveblind FoolIdolIn Vitro HeuresisBumble BoyEasterUndone(Not) Penelope’s WebI doI undoI redo