Be Feared.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burn, Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Nine Arches Press, 2021.

Summary:

Jane Burn's new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self, sisterhood, and love, encountering everything from the Snow Queen to monsters, plagues and infernos. Acknowledging fear, this book embraces discovery, a process of translation and transformation, of finding a voice radiant with both curses and psalms. Rebellious, bloody, and encroached upon by violence, Burn's poetry examines survival, abuse and healing. Intensely imaginative, these incantatory poems rework fairy-tale and folklore and hold up enchanted mirrors to the everyday truths of being a working-class autistic woman, daring to become, claiming her own magnificent, unstoppable fluency and spell-making power.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Trepanation

How Austistic Spectrum Condition Made Her Worth Her Weight in Birds

The Only Kind of Poetry I Seem to be Able to Write

Coronach for my slender waist

Mrs/Mother Hail

Triolet for Easter and the icon I have made of a wizened rabbit's pelt

Look at me, lingering outside this murdered church

Self-Portrait as an Inferno

Thumbelina's Birth as Told in the Style of Gregorian chant

So you made a thousand shit decisions

Fairy Stories

Fat Alice

This is a Frankenstein Night

Schneewittchen and the Universe

Aubade to the Noise of Chainsaws

Red

Aubade to a Wedding Photograph

Gerda's searching leads her to roses and, at the edge of the Snow Queen's land, she realises that her Autism will always be the fairytale with no satisfactory end

The Cursing Psalm

Hood

There are things that give me away if you know how to look,

Frances Cornford's poem about a lady in gloves makes me realise that I have feelings for a woman for the first time

The nights in which I fantasise an evensong of us

Are Vaginas a Deal-Breaker Thing?

We could live in a cwtch of castles. I'll grow my hair

The First Time I Really, Properly Swim

I was not the eye of the Hubble. I saw no cosmic string.

Villanelle to Cold Psalms

Quiero saber si tú aun me quieres and imagining seeing a bird burning in the sky

Study of Life as Recorded in Cruel Lines

Grin Both Ways

The love that Orca taught me while he grew

Ode to the Sight of my Coloured Cob

The gifts she got at birth

Poor blackbird crumb

Be subtle as the Snow Queen,

The truth began with a mirror, cruel and clean

Magic Mirror

My Offering to the Earth

November's Spoil of Rain and Plague

Ways in which I came to be a thief

The Altar of the Dead

Spun from the Same.

The Un-flight of Porcelain Birds

How the river takes whatever you pray

If we are here when yellow has done with the year

Is Autism/Covid happening to someone/somewhere else?

The Advent Calendar of Most Useful Things

If Ω Is For The Last Thing I Might Ever Do

Acknowledgements

About the author and this book.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Burn, Jane Be Feared

ISBN:

9781913437282

OCLC:

1455761595