In her second collection, award-winning poet and playwright Rosy Carrick presents a passionate, lyrical and unflinchingly intimate collage of ruptured memory, drowned childhood, irreducible violence, and the intoxicating chimera of inviolable desire.

Experimental and playful, the poems dart across a fractured and eclectic terrain: from quantum mechanics, grimy London sex clubs and fridged women to blood retinal barrier corruption, haunted reservoirs and salted gastropods; from Baudrillard's semiotics to the architectural aspirations of Elizabeth Bennet; from gurning infants to ecstatic glitter and misplaced canine arseholes; and always back to how it might be possible to love from under the rubble.

A fearless, glitter-streaked dive into memory, desire and the mess of being alive.

About the Author

Rosy Carrick is a writer and performer whose work charts an unusually eclectic trajectory. Her debut poetry collection Chokey was published by Burning Eye in 2018. Rosy has co-hosted the Glastonbury Poetry & Words stage for the last decade. She co-hosted the Latitude poetry stage between 2011 and 2016, and was co-curator and co-host of the Port Eliot poetry stage between 2017 and 2019. She ran the monthly performance poetry event Hammer & Tongue Brighton between 2008 and 2015, as well as the annual Poets vs MCs event at Brighton's Concorde 2. Rosy has a PhD on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and has released two books of his work in translation: Volodya (Enitharmon, 2015) and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Smokestack, 2017). She is currently working on Dochka: a new collection of Mayakovsky's never-before-translated poetry for children.

Book Information
ISBN 9781913958527
Author Rosy Carrick
Format Paperback
Imprint Burning Eye Books
Publisher Burning Eye Books
Weight(grams) 95g