Jo Clement

Outlandish (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to consider notions of otherness, trespass, and craft. She steps between ancient stopping places and mardy council estates to trill elegiac Romanes, English, and birdsong about witches, wild camping, and Silver Cross prams. Compelled by a brutal Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller diasporic legacy, Outlandish tenderly praises the poem-as-protest and illuminates a hidden and threatened culture. Born in Darlington in 1986, Jo Clement received a scholarship to gain a PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She has published two pamphlets, including Moveable Type (2020). She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria University, Editor of Butcher's Dog poetry magazine, and founded the imprint Wagtail with support from the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
• Seitenzahl: 74
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780376158
• Artikelnr.: 63727896

Autorenporträt

Jo Clement was born in Darlington in 1986. She received a Northern Writers' Award in 2012. She is Editor of Butcher's Dog poetry magazine, and founded the imprint Wagtail with support from the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC). In 2021 Butcher's Dog published Wagtail: The Roma Women's Poetry Anthology, edited by her. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport, Melita Hume and Troubadour International prizes, and she has written for The Travellers' Times, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Your Local Arena. She was awarded an inaugural AHRC Northern Bridge scholarship for her PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. She is a Creative Writing Lecturer at Northumbria University, and lives in North Shields. Her first book-length collection, Outlandish, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2022, drawing on new work as well as poems from her debut pamphlet Moveable Type (New Writing North, 2020), and from a collaborative walking and writing book, also titled Outlandish, co-authored with Damian Le Bas with drawings by W. John Hewitt, which was commissioned by New Writing North for the 2019 Durham Book Festival.