Waving

by Traci O'Dea

The poems in Waving are often playful and sexy. They carry with them a dark undercurrent. Conceits from the sea, nature, and art address issues of loss and death. Though often metrical, the content and imagery frequently dictate the poems' delineation on the page.

54 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2021

About the author

Traci O'Dea is the author of Restricted Movement (Scotland Street Press, 2021) and Waving (Assure Press, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in the following places: BBC Radio Jersey, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Literary Matters, The Hopkins Review, The Jersey Evening Post, Goethe Institut, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a collection of verse monologues about deaths in a marble quarry.

A poetry editor for the literary journals Smartish Pace and MOKO: Caribbean Arts & Letters, she has previously worked as a lecturer in English language and literature at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in the British Virgin Islands. Prior to that, Traci O'Dea worked as a magazine and book editor at aLookingGlass Creative, also in the BVI. She spent a year teaching English to high school and post-bac students in Valenciennes, France.

O'Dea earned an MA and MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in English Literature from University of Maryland College Park.

Traci O’Dea currently lives in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.

Reviews

[Maria Kennedy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Artful, at times devastating, but always intriguing.