Imprint:
Tarland : Tapsalteerie, 2024.
Collation:
89 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Overture - - Un-tellings - - Everything is gay (probably) - - gay jesus - - Mary Magdalene - - First came the universe... - - Siproites stumble across Artemis bathing and is transformed - - Medusa - - Arachne - - ...then came the gods - - Bloody women - - Janet Wishart, 1597 - - Jean Craig, 1784 - - Catherine Humphrey, 1830 - - The bloudin o the bride - - Interlude - - The shape of love - - Parrallelogram - part one: a definition - - Gender fluids - - Puddock spittins - - Colourblandness - - Tae dee list at the end of the warld - - Stars - - Muse - - fixer upper - - Parrallelogram - part two: love letter to the bairn I'll nivver carry - - Fit's a nephew, fan it's at hame? - - This is how we live - - Black notes - - preface - - a man was lynched yesterday - - why i'm no longer talking to white journalists about race - - this poem was written on what would have been anthony walker's 34th birthday - - on statues - - on violence - - on gratitude - - the revolution will be televised will be televised will be televised - - Postcript - - Coda - - A note on the poems - - Acknowledgements.
Summary:
Shifting between English and North-East Scots, Bloodsongs is an ode to matters of the blood: queer carnality; black rage; the crude power of myth; how history is felt in the body. Offering retellings of legends and biblical stories as well as perspectives on injustices faced today. Mae Diansangu's radical debut collection marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in Scottish poetry..
ISBN:
9781738439638 (pbk)
Local Class:
821.92
LO 821.92
Bookmark Link:
https://aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=4043922
