Description
Book SynopsisErec & Enide is a bold and unashamedly intimate work that delights in the theatrical, communicative powers of language, and by turns gives way to a quiet sadness. Writing out of contemporary feminist revisions of lyric and epic forms, the poems set up an overtly feminised display which the reader then re-enacts to find meanings which do not ally and a feminism which does not conform to conventional modes of uplift.
Taking its title from Chretien De Troyes’ twelfth-century Arthurian romance, Erec & Enide draws on Jack Spicer’s The Holy Grail, the pastoral romanticism of John Clare, the feminist projects of Lisa Robertson and the essays of Kathy Acker as it moves through a vibrant, rich and playful mix of underhand lyric. These modern love poems wear their ideologically saturated state on their sleeve, and are all the more loving for that.
Table of Contents
- Poetry for Boys
- Dreamboat
- Erec & Enide
- Three in a Boat
- 593
- Sonnet
- A Note on Clarity
- David
- Five Exits
- Since We’ve Lived Here
- One Two
- Lisa Jarnot’s Rabbit
- Letter to John Clare
- Lena at the Beach
- Soliloquy for Living People
- Jaguar
- Notes
