Description
| Product ID: | 9781780376066 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Pit Lullabies |
| Authors: | Author: Jessica Traynor |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through darker days of new parenthood, teasing out anxieties over violence against women and the destruction of our environment. It's Jessica Traynor’s third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Ireland’s Dedalus Press. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through the darker days of new parenthood, teasing out the anxieties which plague us when night falls. Violence against women, the destruction of our environment, the poisons and pitfalls of 21st-century living are explored here in poems by turns lyrical and earthy, yearning and angry. They mine gold from the darkness and seek luminescence in the deepest oceans. Violence against women, the destruction of our environment, the poisons and pitfalls of 21st-century living are explored here in poems by turns lyrical and earthy, yearning and angry. They mine gold from the darkness and seek luminescence in the deepest oceans. Pit Lullabies is Jessica Traynor''s third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Ireland''s Dedalus Press, and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-24 |
