In a sequence of poems set in the mountainous Deep South of America, Dawn Watson vividly evokes an ominous landscape of gas stations, jackrabbits and drifting hawks, where copperhead snakes fall out of branches and 'magnolia cones / thum[p] the roofs' of wooden outhouses.
These poems, based on the writer's time spent in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, are interwoven with pieces set in the poet's native Belfast which speak urgently to the raw realities of sexuality, juvenile detention, and the Irish border. Many poems feature speakers driving from place to place, capturing the in-between states in which so much of experience is actually lived. Precise and strange images coalesce into physical and interior landscapes.
Alternately surreal and direct, and always joyously inventive, Watson offers a clear and unsettling vision of what is and isn't there in these anxious, contemporary times.
| ISBN: | 9781912915330 |
| Publication date: | 13th June 2019 |
| Author: | Dawn Watson |
| Publisher: | The Emma Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 30 pages |
| Series: | The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Narrative theme: Identity / belonging Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages |
In a sequence of poems set in the mountainous Deep South of America, Dawn Watson vividly evokes an ominous landscape of gas stations, jackrabbits and drifting hawks, where copperhead snakes fall out of branches and 'magnolia cones / thum[p] the roofs' of wooden outhouses. These poems, based on the writer's time spent in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, are interwoven with pieces set in the poet's native Belfast which speak urgently to the raw realities of sexuality, juvenile detention, and the Irish border.
The Stack of Owls Is Getting Higher features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages
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The Stack of Owls Is Getting Higher was written by Dawn Watson and published by The Emma Press
The Stack of Owls Is Getting Higher has 30 pages
Yes it is part of The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets series
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