Them!: 'A bold and inimitable tour de force' - Guardian - Softcover

Giles, Harry Josephine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1035025213 ISBN 13: 9781035025213

Verlag: Picador, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

A Scotsman Poetry Book of the Year

Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is an exuberant collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology.

In Them! Giles excavates the lexicon of sex and gender, singing back with irony, fury and possibility. The visual poetics of Them! create an unusually dynamic reading experience as she finds new ways 'to sing, shout and strike in the cracks of what's possible'. We hear from 'the reasonable people' and the bureaucrats; a bewildered worker contemplates the horrors of neoliberalism; a group of women at a quiet dinner encounter a punitive, spectral guest.

Throughout, Giles weighs the artist's need for reverie against the noise that surrounds the activist. How to be both? Must we set aside the struggle in order to create, or 'to hear a bird'?

‘Poetry’, writes Giles, ‘is the best way I know to magic the rage I feel into something more alive, and to offer that spark to others.’ Drawing on an abundance of influences with subversive wit, Them! is a zestful poetic intervention from one of this generation’s most necessary poets.

'A bold and inimitable tour-de-force' – Guardian

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Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney. She holds an MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia received the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year. Her poetry collections – Tonguit and The Games – were shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year. Them! is her fourth poetry collection.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1035025213
• ISBN 13: 9781035025213
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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