Dirty Laundry
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Dirty Laundry

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About This Book

Deborah Alma 's debut poetry collection Dirty Laundry is raucous, daring and honest, drawing contemporary women's lives and those of our foremothers into the spotlight. It voices bold, feminist songs of praise: of persistence, survival, adventures of sexual rediscovery, each reclaiming the space to speak its mind and be heard and seen. A perfect remedy for the heartsick and weary, Alma's intimate and particular poems are resolute enchantments, a form of robust magic.

The collection brims with poems which are unafraid of airing secrets, desires and untold stories. From growing up mixed-race and learning to survive as a woman in the world, to tales of the countryside and themes of escape and finding joy, this book of poems is as vivid as it is frank and fearless. There'll be no need for any tears, it'll all come out in the wash…

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Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781911027485
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

CONTENTS

Flock
Morning Song
One Mother
Nearly Love
Borderline
Then in June
Cattle Lorry Lover
I Am My Own Parent
Roshan
My Mother Moves into Adolescence
Mustard Cardigan
Naive City Eyes
I Don’t Know Why
Still Life
Troll
Tš Duw
Cockle Wives at Penclawdd
The Head of the Church in Rome
When You’re Ready, The Right Man Will Come Along
The Dog Knows its Mistress
You are the Blue-Black Dog
Thighs
Getting It
Splitting up in China with Bitterley Bear
Everywhere We Looked
I put a pen in my cunt once
Writing Poems
Chicken
Small Town
Dissociation
Fridge Magnets
Seeing It Coming
Dirty Laundry
Like Chocolate
The Angel in the House
In Sex We Sing
New House
Small Rain
Anwen & the Shark
Heptonstall
‘I can’t put toothbrushes in a poem’
He Sees Me
On Ageing
Deep Pockets
Pink Pyjama Suit
Epping Forest
No one but the AA
Lift Him Up Out
Playing Scrabble with my new lover
The Magic Spell
Brown Clee Hill
Trust
Scurvy Knaves
and his wife could eat no lean
Fortune always has to cut a deal
Little blue pot
She describes herself like this
Acknowledgements and Thanks
About the author & this book

Flock

i.m. of Jo Cox
Three chickens died this week.
They sat in the unexpected heat panting
and in the morning there was just one
white bird, bewildered, stepping over
their bodies, following the dog.
In the news, a woman died
an...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Flock
  7. Morning Song
  8. One Mother
  9. Nearly Love
  10. Borderline
  11. Then in June
  12. Cattle Lorry Lover
  13. I Am My Own Parent
  14. Roshan
  15. My Mother Moves into Adolescence
  16. Mustard Cardigan
  17. Naive City Eyes
  18. I Don’t Know Why
  19. Still Life
  20. Troll
  21. Tš Duw
  22. Cockle Wives at Penclawdd
  23. The Head of the Church in Rome
  24. When You’re Ready, The Right Man Will Come Along
  25. The Dog Knows its Mistress
  26. You are the Blue-Black Dog
  27. Thighs
  28. Getting It
  29. Splitting up in China with Bitterley Bear
  30. Everywhere We Looked
  31. I put a pen in my cunt once
  32. Writing Poems
  33. Chicken
  34. Small Town
  35. Dissociation
  36. Fridge Magnets
  37. Seeing It Coming
  38. Dirty Laundry
  39. Like Chocolate
  40. The Angel in the House
  41. In Sex We Sing
  42. New House
  43. Small Rain
  44. Anwen & the Shark
  45. Heptonstall
  46. ‘I can’t put toothbrushes in a poem’
  47. He Sees Me
  48. On Ageing
  49. Deep Pockets
  50. Pink Pyjama Suit
  51. Epping Forest
  52. No-one but the AA
  53. Lift Him Up Out
  54. Playing Scrabble with my new lover
  55. The Magic Spell
  56. Brown Clee Hill
  57. Trust
  58. Scurvy Knaves
  59. and his wife could eat no lean
  60. Fortune always has to cut a deal
  61. Little Blue Pot
  62. She describes herself like this
  63. Acknowledgments and Thanks
  64. About the author & this book
  65. About the Author: