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You never know how things really are in other people’s families, in other people’s homes. There’s the public face and the private truths – the personal griefs and tragedies, whether festering or resting in peace. In her wry, engagingly strange poems, Anne Bailey takes the door off the latch and lets us inside.

She shows us loss and disappointment, as well as hardness and resilience, particularly through the eyes of a daughter, wife and mother. We see the domestic sphere in such close-up detail that it becomes bizarre, an uncanny dimension that nonetheless rings horribly, weirdly true.

"So you’ve put a picture on the lovely blank wall
that used to go pink in the sun
and feel like an ice cream.

A wall on which I used to rest my eyes
in pleasant contemplation."
- from 'Domestic'

What The House Taught Us

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You never know how things really are in other people’s families, in other people’s homes. There’s the public face and... Read more

    Publisher: The Emma Press
    Publication Date: 02/12/2021
    ISBN13: 9781912915910, 978-1912915910
    ISBN10: 191291591X

    Number of Pages: 36

    Fiction , Poetry

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    You never know how things really are in other people’s families, in other people’s homes. There’s the public face and the private truths – the personal griefs and tragedies, whether festering or resting in peace. In her wry, engagingly strange poems, Anne Bailey takes the door off the latch and lets us inside.

    She shows us loss and disappointment, as well as hardness and resilience, particularly through the eyes of a daughter, wife and mother. We see the domestic sphere in such close-up detail that it becomes bizarre, an uncanny dimension that nonetheless rings horribly, weirdly true.

    "So you’ve put a picture on the lovely blank wall
    that used to go pink in the sun
    and feel like an ice cream.

    A wall on which I used to rest my eyes
    in pleasant contemplation."
    - from 'Domestic'

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