Overview
Votive Messis a book of small rebellions against systems of exhaustion and alienation, tracing Welsh poet Nia Davies' efforts toa lost mother tongue, y iaith Gymraeg, andembracing lingual brambles and shabby theatre to assemble fragments gleaned from the rubble of Babel.. The navel of the dream is inside out. Nia Davies'second collection follows her startling debutAll fours, emerging from an immersion in performance and ritual. The poems trace a path through the peaks and troughs of performance, bouncing between enchantment and disenchantment. These works are studies in the altered states of travel, masks, comedy, learning and love.Nia Davies' first full-length collection,All fours(Bloodaxe Books, 2017), was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2018 (Wales Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize.
Full Product Details
Author: Nia Davies
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Edition: Paperback original
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
ISBN: 9781780377155
ISBN 10: 1780377150
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 24 October 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
For all their humour and disarming daftness, Davies’s poems do make space for the serious, the pertinent, the uncomfortable… Profane and charismatic, lovely and at times infuriating, Nia Davies’s poetry glitters above all thanks to its energy. -- Leaf Arbuthnot * The Times Literary Supplement, on All fours * Nia Davies’ peculiar and witty All fours is an interrogation of language and sexuality, psychoanalysis and gender, violence and the body, and the values and meaning that we assign to each. Her poetry is surprising, strange, experimental… All fours is challenging, but its content…is urgent. -- Suzannah V. Evans * New Welsh Review *
Author Information
Nia Davies is a poet experimenting with performance, embodied practice, intermedia and hybrid writing. She was editor of Poetry Wales from 2014 to 2019, and has worked on several international and collaborative projects such as Literature Across Frontiers, Wales International Poetry Festival and Wales Literature Exchange. Her pamphlets, Then Spree (Salt, 2012), ekoslovakyallatramadklarmzdanmsnz or Long Words (Boiled String, 2016) and England (Crater, 2017), were followed by her first book-length collection, All fours (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2018 (Wales Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Her second full-length collection Votive Mess is published by Bloodaxe in 2024. She was recently awarded a doctorate for research into poetry and ritual at the University of Salford.
