Ambush at Still Lake
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Ambush at Still Lake

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Full Title

Ambush at Still Lake
Author(s)

Caroline Bird
Edition
ISBN

9781800174139, 9781800174122
Publisher

Carcanet Press Ltd.
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

A Financial Times Poetry Book of the Year 2024. Caroline Bird’s new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which a recurring dream is playing out: a world where mums impale themselves on pogo-sticks, serial killers rattle around in basements, baby monitors are haunted by someone else’s baby and, through it all, love stays and stays like a stationary rollercoaster that turns out to be the scariest, most thrilling ride in the amusement park. Her editor welcomed the book in these terms: ‘It is bleak, repellent and hilarious in an American Psycho-ish way. Hectic and vivid.’ ‘Vegetable crisps. The words yawn like a black hole, sucking my eyes backwards into my head until I see my own brain glowing like a radioactive cauliflower.’

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