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The Skin Diary
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Abegail Morley's The Skin Diary confronts loss in its many forms with unwavering and astonishing clarity, an incandescent thread running through every line that makes each alive with fierce and steely energy.
Here are alert and lyrical poems that hunt out imperfect hiding places, conjure up imaginary sisters and try to contain near-impossible sorrows that spill out of carrier bags and fill up archives. New skins and old disguises are stitched together, the fabric of life tries to hold fast whilst all else unravels and comes apart at the seams. The Skin Diary documents the sometimes fragile and strange windfalls of our days and months; through hard times and thin ice, this journal is bleakly wry, brilliantly focused and brimming with uncanny and discomforting turns of event.
'...ghostly, visceral, and unflinching poems.' â Penelope Shuttle
'The Skin Diary somehow finds words for the ineffable in its search for hope and understanding.' â Martin Figura
'...here is a poet who can hold her nerve and her entire psychological landscape within each multifariously conceived and consciously humane line.' â Melissa Lee - Houghton
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Contents
Before you write off your imaginary sister
Summer
Nesting in the wardrobe
Childhood
Wrong name
Her story
Losing Elena
The Archive of Lost Lives
B1077
Bleeding
Taking flight
The winter gatherer
Discovery
The Blame
The shed = your secret life
If you stitch a woman
Neurologic Signature of Physical Pain
The Ice Hotel
Time Keeper
Brighton flat
Home
Still life with bathwater
The carrier bag
The Skin Diary
Back door at night
The Bramble Hotel
Pause
Love Child
The mechanics of loving
Last night
Summerâs end in Hackney
Forgetting you
The Cabinet of Broken Hearts
Post-
Mayday
The swallowed self
The horologist and the body clock
Barefoot
Foundling
Counter turn
Chicken coop
Fertility spell
Achillea millefolium
Miracle
Fish wife
The Museum of Missed Opportunities
The Oncology Community
In the photo I never took
Paddock Wood to Charing Cross
Presence
text
After youâve died
Afterwards in ink
After the funeral
Package
Living with bats
Jacket
Night planting
Acknowledgements
âAs time goes on, youâll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesnât, doesnât. Time solves most things. And what time canât solve, you have to solve yourself.â
Haruki Murakami
Before you write off your imaginary sister
remember how she didnât take her blunt playschool scissors
to your Tiny Tears doll, didnât lop off a curl,
how it didnât make you cry for three nights in a row,
your only consolation, not inviting a mantra to your lips:
You are not my sister, you are not my sister.
Think of that night she wasnât at the tap-end
of the bath, not bl...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Before you write off your imaginary sister
- Summer
- Nesting in the wardrobe
- Childhood
- Wrong name
- Her story
- Losing Elena
- The Archive of Lost Lives
- B1077
- Bleeding
- Taking flight
- The winter gatherer
- Discovery
- The Blame
- The shed = your secret life
- If you stitch a woman
- Neurologic Signature of Physical Pain
- The Ice Hotel
- Time Keeper
- Brighton flat
- Home
- Still life with bathwater
- The carrier bag
- The Skin Diary
- Back door at night
- The Bramble Hotel
- Pause
- Love Child
- Mechanics of loving
- Last Night
- Summerâs End in Hackney
- Forgetting you
- The Cabinet of Broken Hearts
- Post-
- Mayday
- The swallowed self
- The horologist and the body clock
- Barefoot
- Foundling
- Counter turn
- Chicken coop
- Fertility spell
- Achillea millefolium
- Miracle
- Fish wife
- The Museum of Missed Opportunities
- The Oncology Community
- In the photo I never took
- Paddock Wood to Charing Cross
- Presence
- text
- After youâve died
- Afterwards in ink
- After the funeral
- Package
- Living with bats
- Jacket
- Night planting
- Acknowledgements