Isabel Galleymore

Baby Schema (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024 'Trees crawling with babies, babiesdarting through the skyor buoyed by thermal vents, babiespainted with false eyes'('Fable') In Isabel Galleymore's second collection, the adorable other is not just an imagined future child, but also a tree frog, a weather-worn statue and often the speaker herself, who dreams of quitting adulthood and an endangered world. 'Mother Earth' is less an entity to be revered than a command to care-giving. Lyrics and syllabically-constrained fables examine the play and power involved in creating new life, whether biologically or via cartoonists' animation. Galleymore hones in on cuteness and its relationships to hyper-capitalism and environmental crisis to produce a deliberately queasy ecopoetics. Animal extinctions are likened to failed businesses and sainthood is granted to a dubious character named Michael Mouse. Studies of wild creatures join those of pets, pot plants and animal videos: here is a new nature - one shaped by the extremes of our contemporary desires.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800173897
• Artikelnr.: 69980204

Autorenporträt

Isabel Galleymore's first collection, Significant Other, won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. She held the position of Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2022-23. She lectures at the University of Birmingham.