Makeover

Poems

Laurie Bolger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

36 Seiten

2024
The Emma Press (Verlag)
978-1-915628-24-4 (ISBN)

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Poems on girlhood, the body and working class women from award-winning writer Laurie Bolger.

Makeover is a book dripping with nostalgia, cigarette ash and sour cream dip. Lit by too-close TV screens and too-bright calorie counters, Bolger's poems explore growing up, differing bodies and societal expectations.

Writing in praise of mums, nans and sisterhood, this is a work bursting with strength, anger, love and, ultimately, hope. In a celebration of girls shaped by swimming baths and Working Men's Clubs, friendship and family, Makeover contends with what we inherit and what we ought to pass on.

Laurie Bolger is a London based writer and founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club. Her debut pamphlet 'Box Rooms' (Burning Eye Books) has featured at Glastonbury, TATE, RA & Sky Arts. Laurie's writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Moth, Magma, Crannog, Stand, & Trinity College Icarus & her poems & short stories have been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, Live Canon, Winchester & Sylvia Plath Prizes. In 2023, Laurie won The Moth Prize judged by Louise Gluck with her poem 'Parkland Walk' which appeared in The Irish Times. The poems in 'Makeover' celebrate the resilience of working class women in her family as well as autonomy, community & home.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
Mitarbeit	Cover Design: Amy Louise Evans
Verlagsort	Winnersh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-915628-24-5 / 1915628245
ISBN-13	978-1-915628-24-4 / 9781915628244
Zustand	Neuware