Primers Volume Four E-Book

Lewis Buxton

• Herausgeber: Nine Arches Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 45

Beschreibung

In 2018, the Poetry School and Nine Arches Press launched their nationwide Primers scheme for a fourth time, in search of exciting new voices in poetry, with Kim Moore and Jane Commane as selecting editors. After reading through hundreds of anonymous entries, and narrowing down the choices from longlist to shortlist, three poets emerged as clear choices: Lewis Buxton, Amelia Loulli and Victoria Richards. Primers: Volume Four now collects together a showcase from each of the three new poets It is an irresistible invitation to step out of ourselves and our bodies and drop your expectations on the dancefloor, to take the plunge on the rollercoaster-ride of grief, motherhood and new life, and to meet desire in all its outrageous, dazzling and joyous forms. Secrets, disclosures, changed names and brilliant disguises make for a vivid, adventurous and often deeply moving selection of new work from some of poetry's most talented emerging voices. Praise for Primers: Volume Four "All three poets are rooted in the territory of the body and the expectations placed on it by society though their concerns range widely – from an examination of toxic masculinity to female desire and motherhood. Their approach to language and form is varied, but what is consistent is their ability as poets to invite the reader to see the world in a different way." – Kim Moore

Leseprobe

PRIMERS

Volume Four

Primers: Volume Four

Lewis Buxton, Amelia Loulli and Victoria Richards

Selecting Editors: Kim Moore and Jane Commane

ISBN: 978-1-911027-71-3

eISBN: 978-1-911027-77-5

Copyright © Lewis Buxton, Amelia Loulli and Victoria Richards

Cover artwork © Theodore Inglis

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, recorded or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

The individual authors have asserted their right under Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work.

First published April 2019 by:

Nine Arches Press

Unit 14, Sir Frank Whittle Business Centre,

Great Central Way, Rugby.

CV21 3XH

United Kingdom

www.ninearchespress.com

Printed in the United Kingdom by: Imprint Digital

Nine Arches Press is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

PRIMERS

Volume Four

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About the Selecting Editors:

Kim Moore’s first full-length collection The Art of Falling was published by Seren in 2015 and was awarded the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her poem ‘In That Year’ from the collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Published Poem. She won a Northern Writers Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010. Her pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, and went on to be shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award and named in The Independent as a Book of the Year. She was chosen to take part in Versopolis, a European funded scheme to promote young poets at festivals across Europe and following this her work has been translated into several languages. She is one of the judges for the 2018 National Poetry Competition and is currently a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, working on her second collection.

Jane Commane is a poet, editor and publisher. Her first full-length collection, Assembly Lines, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018. In 2016, she was chosen to join Writing West Midlands’ Room 204 writer development programme. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, for a decade she also worked in museums and archives. Jane is editor at Nine Arches Press, co-editor of Under the Radar magazine, and is co-author, with Jo Bell, of How to Be a Poet, a creative writing handbook (Nine Arches Press). In 2017, she was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship.

Contents

Foreword

Lewis Buxton

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Tense

Mackerel Fishing

Advice from the Quarterback

A&E

Nom-de-guerre

Red Shirt

Frightened Rabbit

Sleep Apnoea

Bruises

Taxidermy

Shadow Boxing

Sevenling

Cues

Amelia Loulli

Rock-a-bye Baby

When I Was Little

Something in the Blood

Love Your Daughters

First Blood

Teenage Mother

Portrait of My Mother as a Patient

Postnatal I

Speak of the Devil

Miss Polly had a Dolly

Broken Waters

Postnatal II

Thinking of My Mother as a Mother

While I Was Feeding You

Victoria Richards

To be fifteen

To the teenage girl sobbing at the bus stop

Rue d’Antibes

The whistle is missing from my life jacket

Your gull cry pierces the night

Lonely Planet gave this 4.6 stars out of 5

Unthinkably, I leave you

They will find me in the street in my dressing gown

L’appel du vide

Milk Thistle

Ingrid Bergman

And a float shaped like the Starship Enterprise

This sad story will make you cry

This is my last will and testament

Notes and Acknowledgements

About the author and this book

FOREWORD

Primers is a collaboration between the Poetry School and Nine Arches Press. It is a unique mentoring and publication scheme, which aims to identify, teach, edit, publish, and publicise the very best emerging poets.

It combines the Poetry School’s long experience in the teaching of poetry with Nine Arches’ expertise in editing and publishing beautiful and original books. In each iteration, the Poetry School, Jane Commane of Nine Arches Press, and a guest mentor – this year, the Geoffrey Faber Award-winning poet Kim Moore – select three poets we believe to be on the cusp of something special.

These three poets receive intensive mentoring to find and shape their voices, work closely on editing a pamphlet-length selection of poems and appear together in the book you’re holding in your hand – Primers: Volume Four.

Previous winners have included Geraldine Clarkson, Cynthia Miller and Romalyn Ante, and Primers poets have gone on to win the Poetry London Prize (twice!), the Manchester Creative Writing Prize, and the Saboteur Award, to be PBS Pamphlet Choices, be featured in Vogue, and run national poetry festivals and innovative publishing houses. They are, in short, ones to watch. And this year’s crop is no exception.

Lewis Buxton’s poems are fearless in their exploration of masculinity and the toxic ways it is performed in and by society. These are unusual poems in that the gaze of the poet is fixed on the male body and its vulnerability, from the ‘tennis racket’ body of a brother, the quarterback with ‘five concussions in fourteen months’ or the porn star looking down at the ‘moon’ of his stomach. These poems often break free of the constraint of punctuation, using the line break and the white space of the poem to de-familiarise the way we see not just the male body, but the way men move through the world.