The Telling
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The Telling

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The Telling

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The Telling by Julia Webb is a distinctive and acutely-observed collection of poems that unravel the intricacies at the heart of human relationships – an insistent, quietly fierce tour de force from this Forward Prize commended poet. Moving and dark, we uncover the things that go unspoken between people despite their closeness.

In turning her forensic focus on what makes us human, and in particular what it is that glues us together or causes us to come apart, Julia Webb's poetry examines the wreckage of complex lives to understand where the fault lines and fractures lie. What are the stories that construct our families and relationships, and who gets to tell them? Can we trust the stories we inherit, and what happens when we recover the right to tell things for ourselves? These compelling, taut poems crackle with the electricity of the untold – of flawed humans and hurt, of daring and being, of reclaiming and persisting.

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Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781913437374
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Julia Webb
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Epigraph
  7. Crash Site
  8. We weren’t as connected as we could have been
  9. The Telling
  10. Since she died bits of me are missing
  11. Prayer for the Lack
  12. Difficult Relationship
  13. Clairvoyance
  14. Eventually the honey wasn’t enough anymore
  15. The future died inside me
  16. Dear Ghost,
  17. My father, bored as a parrot
  18. what hides inside war
  19. You assure your father there will be no homecoming
  20. Daddish
  21. My father says he has forgotten how to make a storm
  22. Rules of the Liar Family
  23. girl was born
  24. All that Water
  25. Grandparents
  26. Relativity
  27. Grandma
  28. To whom it may concern
  29. Here is the house made of light that you longed for
  30. You hit her harder than you meant to
  31. Your sister is blaming you for the rain
  32. Ten Excuses for Not Phoning
  33. Comet and Moon
  34. When I was made of concrete
  35. Jewel Thief
  36. A perfect square of blue
  37. I don’t believe in death
  38. That year there was a hurricane inside me
  39. After the Wedding
  40. And then I married Scotland
  41. The Hunt
  42. When he opened his head to the crows
  43. If only someone had told me the rules
  44. In the hospital they pricked my bright new boy with pins
  45. Unlucky
  46. Duplex
  47. We had nothing but love for the bird he had become
  48. new love
  49. You see love as a bonus
  50. That day I was a picnic rug
  51. Birding
  52. Escape
  53. Dear Ex,
  54. An Insomniac Dreams of Sleep
  55. Women as collateral damage
  56. My glasses say
  57. The heart is a stranger
  58. Fuck Body
  59. Selves (non existent)
  60. The Visitation
  61. DIY
  62. Giving Thanks
  63. This
  64. Remaking Mother
  65. Notes
  66. Acknowledgements
  67. About the author and this book