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All the men I never married
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- Book Synopsis
- All The Men I Never Married is a collection of avowedly feminist intent, rich in ambiguity and with an understanding of the layers of complexity and complicity that exist between men and women.Roughly chronological, with early poems about the innocent friendships of childhood that have a dreamy, anticipatory quality which foreshadows a later eroticism, but also hint at fear, with the awkward boy with 'unwashed clothes': 'We hated the way you followed us around…'. Following on are the terrifying episodes of violence or near violence - incidents detailing escaping rape at a party, a friend suffering the consequences of defending herself from unwanted attention in a nightclub, and 'that being in public is a dangerous thing'.A near-innocuous episode on a fairground log flume sparks a narrative about power and consent, responsibility and opportunity: 'to realise that someone can touch you/without asking, without speaking, without knowing your name … You remember this lesson your whole life…'. There are incursions and interruptions of having to endure 'mansplaining' with an exploration of the complexities and complicity and the risk of confrontation. A number of poems re-enact the 'easy misogyny' of everyday life and observe it from an appalled distance.
- About The Author
- Kim Moore is an award-winning poet based in Cumbria. Her second collection 'All The Men I Never Married' won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022. She won the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition in 2011 and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her first collection 'The Art of Falling' (2015). She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University where she completed a doctorate in 'Poetry and Everyday Sexism'.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781781726419
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Seren, (04 October 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 72
- Weight
- 118 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 138 x 10 mm
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