Say It With Me
Seren (Verlag)
978-1-78172-701-0 (ISBN)
Rooted in everyday communities, the voice of Say It With Me is wry, candid and knowing, offering poems that playfully record the foibles of domestic life. There are curious stories: a parrot flies away but always returns to its master, a school bully becomes their victim's acupuncture patient in adulthood, and a donor finds new kinship with the woman who receives his cells. All these stories are gems full of curious twists and turns.
Often the poems represent specific places and people, sometimes nostalgically so, like memories of family beach trips with loved ones now deceased. Others are flights of fancy: imagining a park of one's dreams, an ode to the small pleasures of life, or inventing a new history where a father didn't die young. Most significant however are the poignant and remarkable stories of family life. There are happy portraits as well as thoughtful poems concerning divorce and parenthood, also the body in triumph and decline. Though speakers take up a watchful distance from events, they are also fierce and unafraid to intervene. A middle-aged woman on the beach wades into the sea to chastise some lads playing with an inflatable sex doll.
"Say it with me" a line taken from the poem 'Canada' is a phrase that often precedes a rallying cry, or a brave but controversial factual statement. The tales in this collection feel true and honest and its title is a call to unite. This is a collection about the communities in which we live and the interconnectedness of human beings. The likeable speaker of these poems surveys it all with the dry humour and wisdom of an older woman, posing scenarios that we can all recognize as authentic. Ultimately, Vanessa Lampert uses deep and rich storytelling to lay bare truths that are at once funny, moving, and illuminating.
Vanessa Lampert is an acupuncturist and poet from Oxfordshire. She has an MA (Distinction) in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and Poetry School London. Since graduating in 2019 she has won the Cafe Writers prize, the Edward Thomas prize, the Sentinel prize and the Ver Poetry prize twice and come second in the Fish, Yeovil, Oxford Brookes, Ware and Kent & Sussex prizes. She has been placed in many other competitions including commendations in the Bridport, Troubadour, Alpine Fellowship and Daily Telegraph prizes. She was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2020 and listed in 2021. Vanessa's work is widely published, most recently in Magma, The Moth, The Oxford Times and Poetry Wales. She writes for and co-edits The Alchemy Spoon magazine and teaches children for Learn with Leaders in India via Zoom. She has run workshops for Hive South Yorkshire, Poetry School London, Oxford Poetry Library, Stanza groups nationwide and Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Vanessa runs Sevenish Poets and teaches poetry workshops as a volunteer in schools. She has judged a number of children's competitions. Her first pamphlet On Long Loan was published by Live Canon in 2020. Her first full collection Say It With Me will be published by Seren in April 2023.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.04.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | Bridgend |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78172-701-5 / 1781727015 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78172-701-0 / 9781781727010 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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