Glut
About this book
Ramona Herdman's Glut is a lush, entertaining, and bittersweet collection of poems about how we live together and find meaning through rules and rituals around food, family, alcohol, work, nature, sex and love. These vividly-realised, nimble poems probe at the delicate balancing acts we – our bodies and our minds – perform in life: between power and trust, between convention and rebellion, and between what is enough and what is too much.
All the time, Herdman's spry poetry keeps a gimlet eye on our impulse to make sense of it all – of how we live and work together, and what strategies will help us to navigate our way through the tangled undergrowth of negotiation and misunderstanding. Glut is a lustrous, darkly funny, open-hearted book on the distance between people, on satisfying appetites, and on seeking both pleasure and consolation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The centre of the fucking universe
- I have to let my lover in under my shield arm
- Valentine, 13 years in
- First drink of the night
- Sunstroke
- Jill had two ponies
- Blackberrying
- The car after the car
- The one-day plan
- I’ve not yet met a bear but do believe
- My latest tactic is trust
- Two cats on a Valentine’s card
- Cuckoo and egg
- Congratulations
- Just a small slice?
- Labyrinth love list poem
- Have you ever said I love you without meaning it?
- Precipitation
- dear life
- Low pain threshold
- Creating a culture where We Can Bring Our Whole Selves to Work
- M&S lets me know twice
- It’s not me taking the minutes
- Sick note
- Comeuppance
- A line of washing
- The beekeeper
- It won’t be a normal year
- Mapping the apples
- This is what happens after you die
- Subsistence
- Hooked
- ‘Wake up: time to die’
- TRIFLE
- Self-portrait as cheese board
- ‘My name is Legion: for we are many’
- Come the zombie apocalypse
- ‘Flown with insolence and wine’
- Drinking partner
- Ship in a bottle
- Mes braves
- One of the ways I could fall off the wagon is bacon
- Shame
- Ever After House
- He sits slightly too close and we don’t look at each other
- Every time I hear of a swan
- Stoat
- Ferns
- Salad spinner
- Two death in the afternoons, please
- Small life with cooling rack
- Night heart
- Acknowledgements and Thanks
- About the Author
