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Ghost Poetry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coburn, Robbie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghosts--Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (73 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood : Upswell Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- I saved the pieces of you when you fell apart Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence". Largely set within stark farmland and surreal, nightmarish dreams, Coburn's new collection of poems, Ghost Poetry, is haunted by depression, trauma, addiction, memory, regret, and the spectre of mutilation and violence inflicted on the human body, accompanied by the desire to leave. But through this, there is always the process of the poet writing; an act that both dissects and preserves experience and suffering. This act ultimately creates, as Leonard Cohen wrote, an engine of survival. Always vulnerable, often confronting and harrowing, Ghost Poetry is a beautifully crafted and important work that will scar the reader.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. Blood Ritual
- Ghost Poetry
- Blood Ritual
- Hospital Theory
- Knife Diary
- Alcoholism
- Dream of Human Sacrifice
- Oblivion
- Dream of Scarification
- Cutter
- Dream of Suicide
- Bloodletting
- Dream of Abortion
- I Dreamed I Saw You on a Bridge
- Asylum
- Burial
- Dream of Recovery
- Preparations
- Rape
- Poetry
- II. Wreck
- The Saddle Maker
- Wreck
- Leaving Song
- Brand
- Horse Womb
- Pasture
- Geography of a Horse
- They Lie About Your Death
- Carousel Horses
- Rodeo Haiku
- A Dead Horse
- Mine
- Foals
- Hell
- Rodeo
- Stock
- After the Grassfire
- The Wheat Search
- A Farm Dream
- Horsesong
- III. Straw Horses
- Love Song
- Torture
- Dream of Rain
- Songbird
- Apology
- Pure
- Love Poem to a Razorblade
- Horse of God
- Hole in the Earth
- Dark Nativity
- Collapses of Breath
- Absence
- Desire
- Dream of Longing
- Dark Time
- Poem to a Body
- Straw Horses
- Last Poem
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Coburn, Robbie Ghost Poetry
- ISBN:
- 9781743823484
- 1743823487
- OCLC:
- 1414467623
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