The Day Before
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-690-5 (ISBN)
Aoife Lyall’s The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, these intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of someone who must navigate a world she no longer understands, exploring first steps and last breaths, milestones, millstones, emigration, fly-tipping and the entire world to be found in the space behind the front door. Tender, challenging, and historically significant, The Day Before asks what it means when home is the one place you cannot leave, and the one place you cannot go. The Day Before is Aoife Lyall’s second collection, following her widely praised debut, Mother, Nature, which was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book Award in Scotland's National Book Awards in 2021.
Aoife Lyall is an Irish poet living in the Scottish Highlands. Awarded an Emerging Scottish Writer residency by Cove Park in 2020 and twice shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Awards, she was longlisted for the inaugural Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize in 2018. Her debut collection Mother, Nature (Bloodaxe Books, 2021) was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book Award, one of Scotland’s National Book Awards 2021. She has worked as a guest curator for the Scottish Poetry Library and as a guest editor for Butcher’s Dog. Her second collection, The Day Before, is published by Bloodaxe in 2024.
9 The day before
10 The early shift
11 Matinee
12 Moss
13 Essential items
14 Torch
16 Hamper
17 Mortification of the flesh
18 The Hail Mary box
19 Bath night
20 In bits
21 The big shop
22 My Scottish fathers
23 The train
24 rainbow
25 Going in circles
26 Traffic calming
27 Sundays
28 Wildflowers
29 Suburban soundscape: Summer
30 A day at the beach
31 Maternal instinct
32 Phantom
33 Day trip
34 Artisan
35 Psithuros
36 Chaos
37 Snow poem
38 Day Return
39 Tow Path
41 The Back of Five
50 Knuckles
51 Big School
52 Roadworks
53 The Distributor
54 I. For want
55 II. Side mirror
56 III. Beyond this point
57 IV. The badger
58 V. I would call them rock doves
59 VI. The hedgehog
60 VII. Dandelion girl
61 This page
62 Notes
63 Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Tyne and Wear |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78037-690-1 / 1780376901 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78037-690-5 / 9781780376905 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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