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Milk Teeth: Poems
Milk Teeth is a celebration of all that is new and much that is old. A new mother sees the world afresh through the eyes of her child, aware that her own childhood is 'trapped in videotape'; she revels in musty pages of the Derry Journal file room and rues the day the company phones arrived. Online dating, text-speak and dizzying space-jumps - this is life in the 21st Century.
A native of Derry, Milk Teeth is Julieann Campbell's first solo collection of poetry, and is infused by her love of place and people. Delving into the depths of the human spirit, Campbell reminds us of the infinite power of memory and pays bold tribute to her home and family, to her city and its history, throughout the prism of their pasts and futures.
Fused with a raw, bold emotion, Milk Teeth explores our yearning for familiarity while encountering change at every turn.
'A stunning debut collection from one of Ireland's finest young poets... illuminating, at times prompting, provoking, inspiring... truly one to treasure.'
Author Felicity McCall (founder/Derry Writers’ Group)
A native of Derry, Milk Teeth is Julieann Campbell's first solo collection of poetry, and is infused by her love of place and people. Delving into the depths of the human spirit, Campbell reminds us of the infinite power of memory and pays bold tribute to her home and family, to her city and its history, throughout the prism of their pasts and futures.
Fused with a raw, bold emotion, Milk Teeth explores our yearning for familiarity while encountering change at every turn.
'A stunning debut collection from one of Ireland's finest young poets... illuminating, at times prompting, provoking, inspiring... truly one to treasure.'
Author Felicity McCall (founder/Derry Writers’ Group)
- GenresPoetry
95 pages, Paperback
First published June 11, 2015
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About the author
Julieann Campbell
8 books18 followersJulieann Campbell was born in 1976 and lives in Derry, Northern Ireland, with her five-year-old daughter Saffron.
A former reporter for the Derry Journal, Julieann’s poetry has been widely published and she won 1st place for a collection in Ireland’s 2008 Charles Macklin Poetry Competition.
In June 2015, Julieann launched her debut solo collection of poetry, 'Milk Teeth', with the city’s premier publishing house, Guildhall Press.
Fuelled by a family link, Julieann has worked alongside the Bloody Sunday Trust on various projects. In 2008, she co-edited 'Harrowing of the Heart: The Poetry of Bloody Sunday' (Guildhall Press), which contained previously unseen local work alongside that of Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, John Lennon and Paul Muldoon, as well as contributing to 'City of Music: Derry’s Music Heritage' and 'Wonderful World of Worders', both by Guildhall Press.
In 2010, a role as Press Officer to Derry’s Bloody Sunday families and survivors led to the commission of Julieann's first non-fiction book,'Setting the Truth Free: The Inside Story of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign' (Liberties Press, Dublin). The book was launched in Derry, Dublin and London in 2012 and won the prestigious 2013 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize – a biannual literary prize which seeks to promote peace and reconciliation in Ireland and a greater understanding between the peoples of Britain and Ireland. Julieann is currently Chair of the Bloody Sunday Trust – the first female to hold the role.
A member of Derry Writers’ Group, Julieann is also a facilitator of oral history and is currently writing the educational graphic novel 'We Shall Overcome' for the Museum of Free Derry.
She also loves late nights, old movies and all the little things that make life shine....
A former reporter for the Derry Journal, Julieann’s poetry has been widely published and she won 1st place for a collection in Ireland’s 2008 Charles Macklin Poetry Competition.
In June 2015, Julieann launched her debut solo collection of poetry, 'Milk Teeth', with the city’s premier publishing house, Guildhall Press.
Fuelled by a family link, Julieann has worked alongside the Bloody Sunday Trust on various projects. In 2008, she co-edited 'Harrowing of the Heart: The Poetry of Bloody Sunday' (Guildhall Press), which contained previously unseen local work alongside that of Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, John Lennon and Paul Muldoon, as well as contributing to 'City of Music: Derry’s Music Heritage' and 'Wonderful World of Worders', both by Guildhall Press.
In 2010, a role as Press Officer to Derry’s Bloody Sunday families and survivors led to the commission of Julieann's first non-fiction book,'Setting the Truth Free: The Inside Story of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign' (Liberties Press, Dublin). The book was launched in Derry, Dublin and London in 2012 and won the prestigious 2013 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize – a biannual literary prize which seeks to promote peace and reconciliation in Ireland and a greater understanding between the peoples of Britain and Ireland. Julieann is currently Chair of the Bloody Sunday Trust – the first female to hold the role.
A member of Derry Writers’ Group, Julieann is also a facilitator of oral history and is currently writing the educational graphic novel 'We Shall Overcome' for the Museum of Free Derry.
She also loves late nights, old movies and all the little things that make life shine....
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May 28, 2017
I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway. This is the author's first solo collection of poetry. I found it to be heavily nostalgic. Most of the poems are memories of family, friends and life in her hometown. I enjoyed the poems but did find most of them a bit brooding. It is a book worth reading.
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