What are You After?
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What are You After?

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What are You After?

About this book

"There is no tick box for this poem. This poem grew up on benefits. This poem pays higher rate tax. This poem isn't in an anthology. This poem doesn't have a glottal stop."

Josephine Corcoran's inventive and unflinching debut poetry collection asks us to consider what it is we're really here for. Bold and unsentimental, her remarkable poems trace the lifelines of where we've been and where we're going to, and they aren't afraid to ask difficult questions of where we are now, either. Corcoran's dexterity allows her to get under the skin of each poem, and to explore other lives with the same attentiveness and concision she brings to her own experiences. What Are You After is also fearlessly personal and political; these resolute poems celebrate outspoken women, working class and immigrant lives, and they refuse to look away from the harsh realities of inequality, austerity, and poverty. Throughout, the haunting texture of history, of long gone places and lost voices, is discernible just beneath the surface of the everyday present like a mirror's delicate silvering. These poems are a rare gift; tender, incisive and real.

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Information

Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781911027423
eBook ISBN
9781911027652
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Honeymoon
  7. Dream while losing twins
  8. Supermoon, September 2014
  9. Esther and Ezekiel
  10. Mis/Carriage
  11. A dream while pregnant
  12. What are you after?
  13. Working Class Poem
  14. Confession
  15. Then sometimes we’ll think of Southport
  16. Dreaming while bereaved
  17. Sometimes I think about Red Rum
  18. Indian Summer, 1980
  19. The domestic life of young film lovers
  20. How to keep spare keys
  21. A dream about Martin Scorsese
  22. Our son the assassin
  23. Telephony
  24. One on almost every street
  25. Like the back of my hand
  26. The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy
  27. “Police Say Sorry”
  28. Stephen Lawrence isn’t on the national curriculum
  29. Reading Harry Potter to my daughter
  30. In Privet Drive
  31. Obliviate
  32. Winter in the town of three smells
  33. Psychologies of Economy Ham
  34. Torrential
  35. Meeting Ibaa
  36. Poem in which we hear the word ‘drone’.
  37. Exquisite Corpse
  38. Three Ted Hughes Stories
  39. Daydreaming on a beach in Brittany
  40. Speaking French
  41. Poem in which I am Joséphine in Paris
  42. Fallen asleep by a Christmas Tree on New Year’s Eve
  43. Ramshackle wooden structure in the far, far distance
  44. Old Girls
  45. What becomes of the absent-minded?
  46. Falling in love while watching The Godfather
  47. Thanks for not switching me off
  48. History Lesson
  49. Gavrilo
  50. In a room of large-scale charcoal self-portraits by Anita Taylor
  51. In town for a funeral, we drive past our old house and see it is for sale
  52. The summer after Tamir Rice died
  53. Love in the time of hospital visits
  54. Acknowledgements and Thanks
  55. About the author & this book
  56. About the Author: