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Dirty Laundry
About this book
Deborah Alma's debut poetry collection Dirty Laundry is raucous, daring and honest, drawing contemporary women's lives and those of our foremothers into the spotlight. It voices bold, feminist songs of praise: of persistence, survival, adventures of sexual rediscovery, each reclaiming the space to speak its mind and be heard and seen. A perfect remedy for the heartsick and weary, Alma's intimate and particular poems are resolute enchantments, a form of robust magic.
The collection brims with poems which are unafraid of airing secrets, desires and untold stories. From growing up mixed-race and learning to survive as a woman in the world, to tales of the countryside and themes of escape and finding joy, this book of poems is as vivid as it is frank and fearless. There'll be no need for any tears, it'll all come out in the wash…
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CONTENTS
Flock
Morning Song
One Mother
Nearly Love
Borderline
Then in June
Cattle Lorry Lover
I Am My Own Parent
Roshan
My Mother Moves into Adolescence
Mustard Cardigan
Naive City Eyes
I Don’t Know Why
Still Life
Troll
Tŷ Duw
Cockle Wives at Penclawdd
The Head of the Church in Rome
When You’re Ready, The Right Man Will Come Along
The Dog Knows its Mistress
You are the Blue-Black Dog
Thighs
Getting It
Splitting up in China with Bitterley Bear
Everywhere We Looked
I put a pen in my cunt once
Writing Poems
Chicken
Small Town
Dissociation
Fridge Magnets
Seeing It Coming
Dirty Laundry
Like Chocolate
The Angel in the House
In Sex We Sing
New House
Small Rain
Anwen & the Shark
Heptonstall
‘I can’t put toothbrushes in a poem’
He Sees Me
On Ageing
Deep Pockets
Pink Pyjama Suit
Epping Forest
No one but the AA
Lift Him Up Out
Playing Scrabble with my new lover
The Magic Spell
Brown Clee Hill
Trust
Scurvy Knaves
and his wife could eat no lean
Fortune always has to cut a deal
Little blue pot
She describes herself like this
Acknowledgements and Thanks
About the author & this book
Flock
i.m. of Jo Cox
Three chickens died this week.
They sat in the unexpected heat panting
and in the morning there was just one
white bird, bewildered, stepping over
their bodies, following the dog.
In the news, a woman died
an...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Flock
- Morning Song
- One Mother
- Nearly Love
- Borderline
- Then in June
- Cattle Lorry Lover
- I Am My Own Parent
- Roshan
- My Mother Moves into Adolescence
- Mustard Cardigan
- Naive City Eyes
- I Don’t Know Why
- Still Life
- Troll
- Tŷ Duw
- Cockle Wives at Penclawdd
- The Head of the Church in Rome
- When You’re Ready, The Right Man Will Come Along
- The Dog Knows its Mistress
- You are the Blue-Black Dog
- Thighs
- Getting It
- Splitting up in China with Bitterley Bear
- Everywhere We Looked
- I put a pen in my cunt once
- Writing Poems
- Chicken
- Small Town
- Dissociation
- Fridge Magnets
- Seeing It Coming
- Dirty Laundry
- Like Chocolate
- The Angel in the House
- In Sex We Sing
- New House
- Small Rain
- Anwen & the Shark
- Heptonstall
- ‘I can’t put toothbrushes in a poem’
- He Sees Me
- On Ageing
- Deep Pockets
- Pink Pyjama Suit
- Epping Forest
- No-one but the AA
- Lift Him Up Out
- Playing Scrabble with my new lover
- The Magic Spell
- Brown Clee Hill
- Trust
- Scurvy Knaves
- and his wife could eat no lean
- Fortune always has to cut a deal
- Little Blue Pot
- She describes herself like this
- Acknowledgments and Thanks
- About the author & this book
- About the Author: