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Strip
"Strip" reveals the lives of 50's pin-up Bettie page, and hardcore porn stars of the following eras with stunning beauty and poignancy. These poems illuminate the darkest of places as they explore taboo with acute sensitivity from suburbia to cinema screen. These poems are cinematic, visual, hauntingly, beautiful and at times devastating.
- GenresPoetry
84 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2007
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About the author
Angela Readman
30 books52 followersAngela Readman is a twice shortlisted winner of the Costa Short Story Award. Her stories have won the National Flash Fiction Day Competition, The Mslexia Short Story Prize, and The Fish Short Memoir Prize. They have also been shortlisted in the Manchester Fiction Prize.
Her debut story collection Don't Try This at Home was published by And Other Stories in 2015. It won The Rubery Book Prize and was shortlisted in the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She also writes poetry: her poetry collection The Book of Tides was published by Nine Arches in late 2016. Angela's debut novel, Something Like Breathing, will be published by And Other Stories in 2019.
Her debut story collection Don't Try This at Home was published by And Other Stories in 2015. It won The Rubery Book Prize and was shortlisted in the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She also writes poetry: her poetry collection The Book of Tides was published by Nine Arches in late 2016. Angela's debut novel, Something Like Breathing, will be published by And Other Stories in 2019.
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October 1, 2010
'Strip' is mostly a poetry collection. It's about sex.It's about porn (one of the poems is about an actress who performs with animals and there are others about Bettie Page - someone I previously knew very little about). And it's brilliant. It's honest. It cuts to the truth of things. It's about being female and about what's often expected. It's raw and it's beautiful and it's wonderfully sad. And it's written beautifully, Angela Steadman is clearly a master (or mistress!) of words and of language.
Perhaps my favourite section was 'The Porn Star Letters'. They're written by a young girl, in the midst of her sexual awakening, to Traci, a porn actress (or star). That bit broke my heart a little and reminded me of Caroline Smailes' Black Boxes in its use of language and the way it was brilliantly affecting.
A brilliant, brilliant collection.
(Originally appeared here: http://nikperring.blogspot.com/2010/1... )
Perhaps my favourite section was 'The Porn Star Letters'. They're written by a young girl, in the midst of her sexual awakening, to Traci, a porn actress (or star). That bit broke my heart a little and reminded me of Caroline Smailes' Black Boxes in its use of language and the way it was brilliantly affecting.
A brilliant, brilliant collection.
(Originally appeared here: http://nikperring.blogspot.com/2010/1... )
January 3, 2009
My review of Strip was published on Stride Magazine website
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