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Pit Lullabies Jessica Traynor

Pit Lullabies By Jessica Traynor

Pit Lullabies by Jessica Traynor

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These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through darker days of new parenthood, teasing out anxieties over violence against women and the destruction of our environment. It's Jessica Traynor's third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Ireland's Dedalus Press. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Pit Lullabies Summary

Pit Lullabies by Jessica Traynor

These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through the darker days of new parenthood, teasing out the anxieties which plague us when night falls. Violence against women, the destruction of our environment, the poisons and pitfalls of 21st-century living are explored here in poems by turns lyrical and earthy, yearning and angry. They mine gold from the darkness and seek luminescence in the deepest oceans. Pit Lullabies is Jessica Traynor's third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Ireland's Dedalus Press. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Pit Lullabies Reviews

Visionary, luminous and haunted, Jessica Traynor's poems are home to a host of compelling characters: witches, changelings, the spirit of Hildegard of Bingen. In The Quick, even the grotesque is rendered with subtle delicacy - a woman whose lungs fold like an origami bird. These poems will give you goose-bumps. -- Helen Mort * on The Quick *
Written with a lightness of touch, these poems are capable of dealing with the big themes - especially those of birth, death or illness...this poet [is] capable of creating canonical work which draws on a contemporary re-thinking of poetic traditions while finding a voice that is wholly her own. -- Siobhan Campbell * Poetry Ireland Review, on The Quick *
Traynor is a master at delineating these almost imperceptible but vital changes...Traynor's fine delicate lyricism belies a social consciousness that subtly bleeds through several poems. -- Martina Evans * The Irish Times, on The Quick *

About Jessica Traynor

Jessica Traynor was born in Dublin in 1984 and is a poet, essayist and librettist. Her debut collection, Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press, 2014), was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award and in 2016 was named one of the best poetry debuts of the past five years on Bustle.com. Her second collection, The Quick, was a 2019 Irish Times poetry choice. A Place of Pointed Stones, a pamphlet commissioned by Offaly County Council,was published by The Salvage Press in 2021. Her third collection, Pit Lullabies (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She has received commissions for poems from BBC Radio 4, The Arts Council of Ireland, The Model Gallery Sligo, The Salvage Press, VISUAL Carlow, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and The Poetry Programme (RTE), and awards including the Hennessy New Writer of the Year, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary, and the Listowel Poetry Prize. In 2016, she was named one of the 'Rising Generation' of poets by Poetry Ireland. She reviews poetry for RTE's Arena, and for Poetry Ireland Review, and has held residencies including the Yeats Society, Sligo, and Carlow College. She is an inaugural Creative Fellow of UCD, where she completed her MA in Creative Writing in 2008.

Table of Contents

11 Pit Lullaby 12 Megalodon 13 Anatomy Scan 14 In the Birthing Room 15 Metaphysical Breast Milk Poem 16 Ophelia in Ballybough 19 Midwinter 20 Pit Lullaby II 21 A Plea for the Sanctification of the Ditches of Ireland 23 Child you cut me open 24 What It Takes 25 Patchwork Quilt 26 If You Can Tame a Wildcat, You Can Raise a Baby 27 Pit Lullaby III 28 On Poisons 37 Pit Lullaby IV 38 In the Wrong Place 39 Forecast 41 On Plastics 43 Supermoon Trifecta 45 Walrus 46 Men are Talking 47 Pit Lullaby V 48 An Island Sings 56 Pit Lullaby VI 57 The Signs 63 Pit Lullaby VII 64 Nureyev in Dublin 66 Holidaying with Dad During the Divorce 67 Dad Cars 69 Pit Lullaby VIII 70 Milk Teeth 71 Lessons 72 Zodiac 73 Rock Pool 74 Turbulence 75 Pit Lullaby IX 77 Hungry Ghost 80 Bilbea's Response 81 Lock Years 83 Onion Poem 84 In the Bathroom Showroom 85 Hunting Lions 86 Hawthorn 87 Night Run 88 Pit Lullaby X 89 Lullaby 91 Notes 93 Acknowledgements

Additional information

GOR012861828
9781780376066
1780376065
Pit Lullabies by Jessica Traynor
Jessica Traynor
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
2022-03-24
96
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