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What Girls Do in the Dark
About This Book
Rosie Garland's dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light, names, place and time become the "distance between things that stand like sisters". We venture through strange night-time transformations, between northerly points and places of being and not-being. In a twilight alive with glimmering energy, we discover not just outer-space, but inner space â where the body and the self are made of infinite galaxies, illuminated for the briefest blink of a life.
Garland's poetry is rooted in the realm of gothic imagination, mythology and the uncanny. It contains magnitudes and magic, feminist fables starstruck with science and astronomy. Like comets, these dazzling poems explore containment, liberation, near-misses, extinction, and ultimately, they ask what it means to escape the pull of gravity and blaze your own bright, all-consuming and astonishing path.
'Garland is a real literary talent: definitely an author to watch' - Sarah Waters
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Perihelion is the closest a comet gets to the fire before managing to escape
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Letter of rejection from a Black Hole
- Trans-Neptunian objects
- Snuffing hearts that burn too bright
- Yorkshire lights
- Making Thunder Roar
- Palimpsest
- Caroline Herschel observes the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, June 1783
- What girls do in the dark
- Heirlooms
- How can a woman sleep when the Master is in pain?
- Eloping with a comet
- The topiary garden
- Saint Catherine
- The last pangolin
- Extinction events
- The correct hanging of game birds
- You can begin at almost any point
- Wicker men
- They are an oddness
- Phrenologist
- Eczema
- Planetary wobble
- Long exposure
- The dark at the end of the tunnel
- Fox rising
- Quicksand
- Sleep of reason
- Personal aphelion
- Dancing the plank
- Scar
- Self-portrait as Halleyâs comet
- Perihelion is the closest a comet gets to the fire before managing to escape
- Dark Matter
- Her name means Electricity
- The correct digging of latrines
- Goods to declare
- Biography of a comet in the body of a dog
- Auto-da-fé
- Plunge
- Stargazer
- Now that you are not-you
- There is no there there
- The devilâs in them
- Bede writes a history of the English people
- And yet it moves
- Since visiting the CERN Large Hadron Collider, you realise what youâve been doing wrong with your life
- Post mortem
- How to keep breathing
- When worlds collide
- The autobiographies of stars
- Bowing out
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the author and this book