Buy on Amazon. I am always making speeches, but speeches are a waste of time The only useful speech is one where you enumerate someone's many failures until they burst into tears But if anyone is bursting into tears today it will be me I just want to lie naked on a deckchair, fanning myself with divorce papers from "Speech time". That is, the ability to make a statement and to both mean it very deeply while simultaneously holding it up as an object of mockery. I listened to her read that poem over and over, crying at the end every time. Imagine again that picture of me, Joey Connolly, laughing and crying. If you love that poem, you will love this collection and her other one, which has her other best poem Monica. This is a book I will finish over and over again and immediately restart. Seeping with existential delay. Jump to ratings and reviews. Cristina Morariu. This small collection explores what it means to be a young woman, fresh from university and facing the world, in a 21st century packed with screens and no reasons.
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Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. Hera Lindsay Bird. Love, death, Bruce Willis, public urination, being a woman, love, The Nanny, love. This pamphlet of poetry by Hera Lindsay Bird is a startling departure from her bestselling debut Hera Lindsay Bird by defying convention and remaining exactly the same, only worse. Loading interface About the author. Hera Lindsay Bird 4 books followers. Born in Thames. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 30 of 69 reviews. If I priced per page, this very slim volume is the most expensive book I have ever bought!
Part of that infectiousness comes from their strikingly idiomatic style, characterised by several traits: an informality informal to the point of ritual; short to mid-length declarative sentences, stripped of any formal expression of the strong feelings they describe; a conspicuous lack of lyricism; the deadpanning of great misery and joy, pamper me to hell and back. Fame, the moon, meaninglessness. Well, where historically poets have refined their language towards poetic diction and metre — and risked being programmatic and melodically repetitive as a result — Bird refines her language towards an imitation of vernacular usage. But Bird is never those things, in the same way Tennyson is never drily metrical. The other striking formal features are the barrage of similes and the frequent ellipses — both taken straight out of the poems of Chelsey Pamper me to hell and back. The sheer reach and imaginative variety is striking, but… is that variety part of any form?
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P amper Me to Hell and Back is full of confessional, provocative and occasionally explicit poems, written in a conversational style with a bleak outlook on life. Many pamper me to hell and back the poems are surreal, whilst some feel more like Facebook posts, and others seem designed to be performed as spoken word. This sets the scene for a collection which is both humorous and disconcerting, light-hearted and satirical. It also reveals the underlying themes of mortality, love and the relentless monotony of life. This is not the kind of poetry that I normally read, and I must admit to being put-off initially by the more explicit and provocative lines. Perhaps it is the interminable onslaught of surprising almost ridiculous imagery, or the self-deprecating humour that runs throughout. Whatever it is, there is something unique and a little bit addictive in these poems. Other poems seem to be anti-love poems. There are some more straightforward love poems too. I want to get really good at woodwork and go into the forest and cut up some logs and make you a beautiful house to live in. I enjoyed reading the last three poems, which have a more serious undertone, whilst still being light-hearted and full of humour. I like this picture because it reminds me of loneliness And the great, pamper me to hell and back, unspecific boredom of life. Buy this book from Waterstones.
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