Outlandish

Jo Clement

• Editorial: Bloodaxe Books
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781780376158
• Categoría: Letteratura
• Categoría: Poesia europea

Jo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to consider notions of otherness, trespass, and craft. She steps between ancient stopping places and mardy council estates to trill elegiac Romanes, English, and birdsong about witches, wild camping, and Silver Cross prams. Compelled by a brutal Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller diasporic legacy, Outlandish tenderly praises the poem-as-protest and illuminates a hidden and threatened culture. Born in Darlington in 1986, Jo Clement received a scholarship to gain a PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She has published two pamphlets, including Moveable Type (2020). She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria University, Editor of Butcher's Dog poetry magazine, and founded the imprint Wagtail with support from the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).

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CONTENTS

1. TITLE PAGE
2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3. PREFATORY NOTE
5. The Impression of Water
6. Family Silver
7. Vault
8. Inheritance
9. King Faa
10. Teesdale Erratics
11. Big Fat Gypsy Swindle
12. Cobsong
13. At Eildon
14. Smithsong
15. Market
16. Mass
17. The Sly and Unseen Day
18. Tinker’s Tea
19. Knots
20. Larch
21. The Graver
22. Wild Camp
23. Ironwork, V&A
24. Outlandish
25. Haunt
26. Crown
27. Paisley
28. Vardo
29. A Stopping-place
30. Craft
31. Pome
32. Pollard
33. Playing Cards
34. Self-portrait as 100 Travellers
35. Wonderf...