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OverviewSupport, support is a house in which lovers are made up with the bed in the morning, where house keys are mooned over, plates left out, where the radio delivers a longed-for voice. A house is both a desire for and a fear of domesticity, an ‘ordeal’ and an ‘ideal’ as much as is another’s body and their presence, and here the promise of shelter is subverted by gaps and damage, by cruelty and betrayal. Here, the taxi cab is safer than the house, than the ironically named Care Home, than the party you leave in tears, than the bed you lie awake in, than the womb, than the closeness you ‘did not invite’. In order to build, you must dismantle, these poems say; ‘In order to make the music it seems / I must break so many things.’ This is a debut of great power from a bold and radical new voice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helen CharmanPublisher: Offord Road Books Imprint: Offord Road Books Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 20.40cm ISBN: 9781999930455ISBN 10: 1999930452 Pages: 26 Publication Date: 30 August 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Pamphlet Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationHelen Charman's poetry has been published in The White Review, para·text, Blackbox Manifold, Hotel and Datableed, and is forthcoming in New Poetries VII (Carcanet, 2018). This is her first pamphlet. Her critical writing can be found in King's Review, the Cambridge Humanities Review and introducing a new edition of Mary Butts' stories (Hurst Street Press, 2017). She is currently writing a PhD thesis on maternity, sacrifice and political economy in nineteenth-century fiction, and teaching undergraduates at the University of Cambridge and primary school children in Hackney. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |