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LOOK HOW ALIVE IBD

WRITE BLOODY PUBLISHING UK SR
09 / 2022
9781838033255
Inglés

Sinopsis

At times gut wrenching, at times ecstatic and defiant,áLook How Alive I Amáis filled with vibrant poems, pulsing with theájoy and the pain of living. Navigating love and loss, battles with depression, Alpine landscapes and buzzing cityscapes, Hollingsworth-SmithâÇÖs debut book has a heartbeat.Lauren Hollingsworth-SmithâÇÖs debut collection is an inquisitive and tender examination of the minefields of coming of age. Here the body is a site of conflict and reconciliation. We are gifted with honest testimonies that microscopically examine sexuality, sensuality, crushes, first love and mental health. Hollingsworth-SmithâÇÖs scathing, yet refreshingly honest poetics brutally expose the impact of societyâÇÖs gender violence on the body. The poems evoke aáhaunting, where the body endures and navigates imperfections and vulnerabilities. Where a scathing woman resides within the poetâÇÖs body and her caustic voice is aágripping melody that traps. Yet there is innocence here alongside reckless adventure, withástunning imagery where the caustic inner ghost is continually purged. These are poems ofáwitness and resilience. Poems whose gripping melody bruises and beguiles. - Malika BookerArresting, wise and honest, Lauren Hollingsworth-SmithâÇÖs debut collection evokes what it is to comeáof ageánow. The speaker emerges from mental illness, isolation and complicated first romanticáencounters with the determination to live and love herself wildly:áâÇÖThe Wolf is coming out. SheâÇÖs coming, look! SheâÇÖs coming!âÇÖ - Helen BowellLauren Hollingsworth-Smith is a poet and artist based in Rotherham and Oxford, currently living in the French Alps. She is a member of The Writing Squad and HiveâÇÖs Poetry Collective. LaurenâÇÖs work has been published in several anthologies including She Will Soar (Pan Macmillan 2020). Her debut pamphletáUgly Birdáwon the 2020 New Poets Prize. She won the Foyle Young Poets of the Year award in 2019 and was highly commended in the Young Northern WritersâÇÖ award. Lauren has performed at various events and festivals, including Ledbury Poetry Festival, Kendal Poetry Festival and Off the Shelf Festival of Words. She studies English and French at Oxford University

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