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Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts
The Emma Press Book of Beasts rustles and roars with the voices of animals and humans, co-existing on Earth with varying degrees of harmony. A scorpion appears in a shower; a deer jumps in front of a car. A swarm of snowfleas seethes through leaf litter; children bait a gorilla at the zoo. The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy, herds, power, and the price we pay for belonging.
- GenresPoetry
88 pages, Paperback
Published May 24, 2018
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August 22, 2021
Snarl. Claw. Bare teeth and talons. The poems in Some Cannot Be Caught not only situate animals in the wild; they sharply and playfully contrast the behaviours of human animals against our furrier, scalier counterparts. It’s no surprise that humans are the ones lacking. Animal intelligence populates this anthology, most remarkable in poems like Pascale Petit's, which bare the weald of loneliness against the territory of a wolverine. Hither, all beasts. These poems want you.
“When my mother says I was her kit
taken from her too early,
I think not of cats but a wolverine,
my devourer of snowfields, who,
when she can find no more prey,
eats herself, even the frozen bones.”
20/31
#TheSealeyChallenge
“When my mother says I was her kit
taken from her too early,
I think not of cats but a wolverine,
my devourer of snowfields, who,
when she can find no more prey,
eats herself, even the frozen bones.”
20/31
#TheSealeyChallenge
January 19, 2020
It’s a very diverse and surprising collection of poems & verses that have animals or a kind of animality at their centre. The grouping in different chapters makes for some interesting cross-readings. If you like beasts, read it. If there’s a beasties lover in your life, give it to them. They will like it.
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