Fantastic Voyage
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-711-7 (ISBN)
A child travels down her own oesophagus, a woman joins a search party to look for herself, one grief-stricken soul descends into a watery underworld whilst another experiences love as demonic possession…. By turns wryly humorous, tender and heartbroken, Fantastic Voyage takes us on journeys into our hidden and ghostly selves, our insides and our ‘other’, exploring the myriad ways in which the human body gives voice to unspeakable truths.
These poems put us in and alongside bodies that are ill, out of control and inhabited - our dark innards as harbingers of secrets and fears, the gut as fortune-teller and home to ghosts. The book's central long poem – a meditation on water – charts a deeply personal voyage through grief and loss. Two contrasting voices attempt to navigate a devastated world as both a corporeal and visceral experience, one grounded, the other hallucinatory. In other dreamlike experiences, the poems glimpse absent bodies as apparitions, doppelgängers and hauntings, and our visible selves as beings we cannot always recognise.
Amanda Dalton is a poet and playwright. Her first book-length collection, How to Disappear (Bloodaxe Books 1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and she was chosen as a Next Generation Poet in 2004. Her second collection, Stray, was published by Bloodaxe in 2012. In 2021 Arc published her experimental chapbook, 30 Poems in 30 Days and, in 2022, Smith|Doorstop published a pamphlet of two long poems, Notes on Water. A version of Notes on Water was re-created for two voices and soundscape for BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears. Her third full-length collection, Fantastic Voyage (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), also includes Notes on the Water. Amanda writes extensively for BBC Radio 4 and 3 including original drama, poetry-dramas, classic adaptations, re-imaginings of film, and lyric essays. Her theatre writing includes text for outdoor and site-specific performance, and drama for young people including commissions with Manchester’s Royal Exchange, Sheffield Theatres and Keswick’s Theatre By The Lake. Freelance since 2017, much of her career has been focused on teaching, mentoring and the curation and artistic leadership of innovative cross art-form projects, often in collaboration with other artists and communities. She lives in Hebden Bridge.
9 Fantastic Voyage
10 Belly
10 Takotsubo
10 Gut
10 A Ghost Story
11 Look Inside!
12 When Andrea was 7
13 Auntie Irene says
14 One day I watch
15 Andrea’s father
16 One day I ask
17 Mum says Nancy Gardiner
18 Janet Bradley says
19 One day I go for a colonoscopy
20 Peter B says
21 Aged 9, Andrea doesn’t know
22 One day, I was sawn in half
23 Notes on Water
39 Haunts and Apparitions
41 Nights I Squat
42 Magic
44 December 1979
45 Three Hauntings
45 1 Pelican
46 2 Girl in White with Trees
47 3 Man Dressed as Bat
48 Missing
49 The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
51 like a tree
53 The Possibility of Fog
54 Ten Signs of Possession
54 1 Superhuman Strength
55 2 Knowledge of Previously Unknown Languages or Speaking in Tongues (glossolalia).
56 3 Unnatural Body Movements
57 4 Appearance of Wounds that Vanish as Quickly as They Appear
58 5 Paranormal Capabilities
59 6 Living Outside the Rules of Society
60 7 Being Persistently Ill, Falling into Heavy Sleep and Vomiting Strange Objects
61 8 Being Troubled by Spirits
62 9 Being Uncomfortable, Ugly and Violent
63 10 Making Sounds and Movements Like an Animal
64 Aftermath
67 Untitled
68 Fantastic Voyage
70 Notes
71 Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Tyne and Wear |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78037-711-8 / 1780377118 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78037-711-7 / 9781780377117 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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