Significant Other
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Significant Other

  1. 54 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Significant Other

About this book

 
Shortlisted for the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Shortlisted for the 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2019 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection. The Telegraph's Poetry Book of the Month March 2019. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. In her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the 'eight million differently constructed hearts' of species currently said to inhabit Earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies – loving, fraught, stalked by loss and extinction – that make up a life. The habit of foisting human agendas on non-human worlds is challenged. Must we still describe willows as weeping? In the twenty-first century, is it possible to be 'at one' with nature? The poems reflect on our desire to locate likeness, empathy and kinship with our environments, whilst embracing inevitable difference. As the narratives belonging to animal fables, Doomsday Preppers and climate change deniers are adapted, new metaphors are found that speak of both estrangement and entanglement. Drawing at times from her residency in the Amazon rainforest, Galleymore delves into a world of pink-toed tarantulas, the erotic lives of barnacles, and caged owls that behave like their keepers. The human world revises its own measure in the light of these poems.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781784107116
eBook ISBN
9781784107123
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  5. Ocean
  6. The Starfish
  7. Once
  8. By Ourselves
  9. Robin
  10. Choosing
  11. Slipper Limpet
  12. The Ash
  13. A Stranger
  14. Into the Woods
  15. Kind
  16. Goose Barnacle
  17. Say Heart
  18. True Animal
  19. Seahorse
  20. Together
  21. Day
  22. At First
  23. No Inclination
  24. Limpet & Drill-Tongued Whelk
  25. Difficult Cup
  26. Spirit Human
  27. The Scrotum Frog
  28. I Keep You
  29. Nectaries
  30. Eye &am...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Epigraph
  5. Ocean
  6. The Starfish
  7. Once
  8. By Ourselves
  9. Robin
  10. Choosing
  11. Slipper Limpet
  12. The Ash
  13. A Stranger
  14. Into the Woods
  15. Kind
  16. Goose Barnacle
  17. Say Heart
  18. True Animal
  19. Seahorse
  20. Together
  21. Day
  22. At First
  23. No Inclination
  24. Limpet & Drill-Tongued Whelk
  25. Difficult Cup
  26. Spirit Human
  27. The Scrotum Frog
  28. I Keep You
  29. Nectaries
  30. Eye & Sight
  31. Spiny Cockle
  32. The Wingless Wasp
  33. Worm
  34. The New World
  35. Rainforest Spelled Backwards is Lustful
  36. Harvest
  37. Tended
  38. Nuptials
  39. Crickets
  40. Strawberry & Ship-of-War
  41. Barnacles
  42. False Limpet
  43. Shadow Tale
  44. I’m Doing You an Injustice
  45. Succession
  46. Luminescent
  47. Crab
  48. Significant Other
  49. Examples Include Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’
  50. Are We There Yet?
  51. Notes
  52. Acknowledgements
  53. About the Author
  54. Copyright

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