Proof of Life on Earth
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Proof of Life on Earth

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Proof of Life on Earth

About this book

You live and then you die. That's the only certainty there is, right? Using love as its guide, Proof of Life on Earth, the debut poetry collection by Degna Stone, looks at all the stops between our arrival and our departure. These poems examine matters of the heart (both the metaphorical and medical kind), of race and discrimination, of the body, mind and self – each in forensic detail, attentive and curious of what moves, shapes, and makes us alive.

In between are the landmarks which populate the rich terrain of this collection; not only of our lives through youth to adulthood, but of history, of the long shadows of empire, and of landscapes themselves - especially those of the northeast of England, evocative, rugged and monumental. Stone's deft and scalpel-sharp poetry explores human existence shaped by mortality and experience, and asks what it means to do more than survive – to live in defiance, openness and awareness.

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Information

Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781913437589
eBook ISBN
9781913437596
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Love
  7. over
  8. Pallor
  9. Mr Stone’s bionic heart
  10. Weighing of the Heart
  11. Bear Hug
  12. Mrs Stone visits her husband
  13. Rooms
  14. Mrs Stone lies awake
  15. Bypass
  16. Vörður
  17. Swansong
  18. Perfidia
  19. Swimming
  20. Another Tongue
  21. Unpicking the lies
  22. Strange Defeat
  23. The city was killing us so we tore it down
  24. Looking at it from all sides
  25. Mother Country
  26. The crows
  27. Blackface
  28. Of Mutuality
  29. I’ll never protest as well as Nina Simone
  30. My country of origin
  31. Hiding Places
  32. After Marwood
  33. When We Speak of Our Mothers
  34. Gina’s neighbour
  35. The Humanist
  36. Two naked women
  37. A Manifesto of Tiny Commitments
  38. Spectators
  39. Walltown Crags
  40. Northumberland
  41. At Snook Tower
  42. For love
  43. The Swan Bride
  44. Bastard
  45. Stupor
  46. Protected
  47. Short sighted
  48. High Level
  49. For a girl who doesn’t eat
  50. Ruby, Aged 4½
  51. A Doll House
  52. Vegan in Pearls
  53. Red Light
  54. Cross Bones Burial Ground
  55. Watching the moon through varifocal lenses
  56. A Spark
  57. Red Dirt
  58. Proof of life on earth
  59. The year ahead in review
  60. Notes
  61. Thanks & Acknowledgements
  62. About the Poet