Astute, precise, and unsettlingly calm, Accessioning is an index of lives encased in museum glass, and then brought to life. Through poems about 'fossilised fruit seeds' and the sofa where Emily Bronte died, Wetton questions how we curate the lives of those living and dead, in a pamphlet about looking, processing, and memorialising. Whether considering preserved wedding-cakes, a non-existent art exhibition or a human scream, these poems speak to the impossibility of containment and question our ability to map and categorise. This is a pamphlet of poems about the stories that we tell ourselves, the memories that we construct, and the ways that we value and devalue people, animals and objects alike.

Astute, precise, and unsettlingly calm, Accessioning is an index of lives encased in museum glass, then brought to life.

About the Author
Charlotte Wetton's first pamphlet I Refuse to Turn into a Hat-Stand (Calder Valley Poetry) won the Michael Marks Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet in 2017. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester and lives in West Yorkshire. She can be found on Twitter @CharPoetry


Book Information
ISBN 9781915628138
Author Charlotte Wetton
Format Paperback
Imprint The Emma Press
Publisher The Emma Press
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 5mm