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The Stack of Owls is Getting Higher
About This Book
In a sequence of poems set in the mountainous Deep South of America, Dawn Watson vividly evokes an ominous landscape of gas stations, jackrabbits and drifting hawks, where copperhead snakes fall out of branches and 'magnolia cones / thum[p] the roofs' of wooden outhouses. These poems, based on the writer's time spent in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, are interwoven with pieces set in the poet's native Belfast which speak urgently to the raw realities of sexuality, juvenile detention, and the Irish border. Many poems feature speakers driving from place to place, capturing the in-between states in which so much of experience is actually lived. Precise and strange images coalesce into physical and interior landscapes. Alternately surreal and direct, and always joyously inventive, Watson offers a clear and unsettling vision of what is and isn't there in these anxious, contemporary times.
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Hello, I Am Alive
Table of contents
- Cover
- Other Titles from The Emma Press
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- How To Kill Snakes with a Slipper
- Peach Season
- The Boxer
- Yellow Punkins on the Oolenoy
- Chicken Wings
- Donât Shoot, Sir
- Bird on the School Path
- Advice for Campers
- At the Gas Station
- We Can Chat About It by Teletext Which I Know Is Impossible
- The M1 to Belfast
- Heading Home to East Tennessee via the Town of Bat Cave
- Non-Biological Motherhood in Euclidean Terms
- The Sun is One Inch Above the Horizon
- Hello, I Am Alive
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Poet
- About The Emma Press