Egg/Shell / Victoria Kennefick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennefick, Victoria, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Irish authors.

Women poets, Irish.

Genre:

Poetry

Physical Description:

114 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Eggshell.

Egg shell

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2024.

Summary:

'It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away / so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen / my life?' ('Child of Lir')The lives depicted by Victoria Kennefick alter, shatter and recombine in stunning monologues, innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics: her second book Egg/Shell is a diptych, a double album, which explores early motherhood and miscarriage, and the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. Acclaimed as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years, Kennefick, in the follow-up to her best-selling Eat or We Both Starve, breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity, formal ingenuity and wit.

Contents:

Chicken

Nightbaby

Lullaby!

On Being Two in the Anthropocene

Making Monsters

Teaching My Daughter How To Break an Egg

The Wild Swans at The Wetlands Centre

No. One: Ivy

Ode to Self-Loathing

Are You Going to Have Another Baby?

And Another Thing

I Do an Egg Cleanse Because I Must

No. Two: Fern

Mousie

No. Three: Willow

O Brigid, O Exalted One, Listen to My Plea as I Celebrate You

Cup

Potion

Incomplete Recipe for Custard

Bad Egg

No. Four: Sage

Wild Swans Again

Dead-In-Shell

Failed Translation of A Pigeon's Coo

A Child's First Experience of Planting Seeds

Le Cygne, My Spirit Animal

Halloween

Paper Thin

To All The Babies I (N)ever Had

Trying To Explain My Attention Span for The First Time

Unasked for Advice Is Criticism

A Séance to Contact My Dead Babies

A Brief History of Easter Eggs

Ultrasound on Valentine's Day

Metamorphoses Book XV Cheat Sheet

Special Topics In Commemoration Studies: The Kerry Archives

I Suppose It's Pointless to Think of You at All

/SHELL

Watching Your Egg Crack

Björk on Björk's Swan Dress

The Husband Suit

On Wondering Whether to Expunge The Word Husband From My Previous Poems

Vault of Obsolete Pronouns And Defunct Descriptors

Crosswalk

Silver Swan Automaton

Spilt Milk

Allow Me to Explain Through The Medium of Metaphor Just How Badly It Hurts

'Humilated (Swan)' 2013 by Tracy Emin

Hedgehog Practises Being A Woman

Super King

Ark of The Convenient

The Ego is Crushed Like a Snail Shell Under a Stiletto and is Begrudgingly Divested of Its Own Smugness

Obligatory Instagram Found Poem

a Lessons in Neuroplasticity When Changing Your Name to Your Name

To The Swan That has Fallen in Love with a Pedalboat in Germany

Art Gallery Easter Eggs

Listening Back to Phone Recordings I Made in the Car While Trying to Drive Away From My Life

Poem in Which I Wish I Wore Emily Dickinson's Dress Instead

Victoria Re-Enacts The Stations of The Cross. (Don't We All?)

Modern Crucifixion

Census Night Poem

Orientation: A Tragedy

Pelvis

Mad Honey

Cygnus, The Swan in The Stars

Tempera

Child of Lir

Swan Song

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Erratum slip included.

"Poetry Book Society choice" -- front cover.

ISBN:

1800173830

9781800173835

OCLC:

1396975471