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Dragonish
Dragonish is the debut pamphlet of poems by Emma Simon. With an introduction by Caroline Bird.
Loss, love and various body parts are scattered throughout Dragonish. The poems are rooted in family, friends and home while also reaching into other worlds: the circus of possibilities, an earth-bound heavenly host, London's Dryads and a nineteenth century French brothel. Infused with warm humour, tinged with darkness, the poems tempt the reader to peep beneath the surface of things.
Loss, love and various body parts are scattered throughout Dragonish. The poems are rooted in family, friends and home while also reaching into other worlds: the circus of possibilities, an earth-bound heavenly host, London's Dryads and a nineteenth century French brothel. Infused with warm humour, tinged with darkness, the poems tempt the reader to peep beneath the surface of things.
- GenresPoetry
28 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2017
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Emma Simon
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April 3, 2017
This is a beautiful, lively collection of surprising poems, all of them rooted in the recognisable but with tendrils floating in the surreal. Emma Simon has a unique imagination which pairs unlikely things with each other, and a delicate voice and brilliant ability to make unusual, perfect word choices.
She conjures characters, stories, settings and emotions fully in just a few lines; hardly any of the poems are more than a page long. There's a lot of humour. TripAdvisor Reviews for the Overlook Hotel is hilarious. There's poignancy (eg Plait) and politics (eg The Derry Street Trials) and lots of darkness and strangeness and a feeling of Magical Realism, too.
Unlike a lot of poetry, all of these poems make immediate sense and create clear images. Many of them are quite conversational in tone. All very accessible.
Highly recommended.
She conjures characters, stories, settings and emotions fully in just a few lines; hardly any of the poems are more than a page long. There's a lot of humour. TripAdvisor Reviews for the Overlook Hotel is hilarious. There's poignancy (eg Plait) and politics (eg The Derry Street Trials) and lots of darkness and strangeness and a feeling of Magical Realism, too.
Unlike a lot of poetry, all of these poems make immediate sense and create clear images. Many of them are quite conversational in tone. All very accessible.
Highly recommended.
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