| Subject |
English poetry -- Irish authors.
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Women poets, Irish.
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| Descript |
114 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Content |
text txt |
| Media |
unmediated n |
| Carrier |
volume nc |
| Note |
Erratum slip included. |
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"Poetry Book Society choice" -- front cover. |
| Contents |
Chicken -- Nightbaby -- Lullaby! -- On Being Two in the Anthropocene -- Making Monsters -- Teaching My Daughter How To Break an Egg -- The Wild Swans at The Wetlands Centre -- No. One: Ivy -- Ode to Self-Loathing -- Are You Going to Have Another Baby? -- And Another Thing -- I Do an Egg Cleanse Because I Must -- No. Two: Fern -- Mousie -- No. Three: Willow -- O Brigid, O Exalted One, Listen to My Plea as I Celebrate You -- Cup -- Potion -- Incomplete Recipe for Custard -- Bad Egg -- No. Four: Sage -- Wild Swans Again -- Dead-In-Shell -- Failed Translation of A Pigeon's Coo -- A Child's First Experience of Planting Seeds -- Le Cygne, My Spirit Animal -- Halloween -- Paper Thin -- To All The Babies I (N)ever Had -- Trying To Explain My Attention Span for The First Time -- Unasked for Advice Is Criticism -- A Séance to Contact My Dead Babies -- A Brief History of Easter Eggs -- Ultrasound on Valentine's Day -- Metamorphoses Book XV Cheat Sheet -- Special Topics In Commemoration Studies: The Kerry Archives -- I Suppose It's Pointless to Think of You at All -- /SHELL -- Watching Your Egg Crack -- Björk on Björk's Swan Dress -- The Husband Suit -- On Wondering Whether to Expunge The Word Husband From My Previous Poems -- Vault of Obsolete Pronouns And Defunct Descriptors -- Crosswalk -- Silver Swan Automaton -- Spilt Milk -- Allow Me to Explain Through The Medium of Metaphor Just How Badly It Hurts -- 'Humilated (Swan)' 2013 by Tracy Emin -- Hedgehog Practises Being A Woman -- Super King -- Ark of The Convenient -- The Ego is Crushed Like a Snail Shell Under a Stiletto and is Begrudgingly Divested of Its Own Smugness -- Obligatory Instagram Found Poem -- a Lessons in Neuroplasticity When Changing Your Name to Your Name -- To The Swan That has Fallen in Love with a Pedalboat in Germany -- Art Gallery Easter Eggs -- Listening Back to Phone Recordings I Made in the Car While Trying to Drive Away From My Life -- Poem in Which I Wish I Wore Emily Dickinson's Dress Instead -- Victoria Re-Enacts The Stations of The Cross. (Don't We All?) -- Modern Crucifixion -- Census Night Poem -- Orientation: A Tragedy -- Pelvis -- Mad Honey -- Cygnus, The Swan in The Stars -- Tempera -- Child of Lir -- Swan Song -- Acknowledgements. |
| ISBN |
1800173830 (paperback) |
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9781800173835 (paperback) |
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