And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Fly on the Wall Press
Published:24th May '24
Should be back in stock very soon
The trials and tribulations of inhabiting the female body, including raw scrutiny of the joys and difficulties that come with motherhood.
In her second chapbook, *And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound*, Morag Anderson places centre stage an unlikely cast of neglected, exploited, and unsung characters. As 2023 Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and Poet in Residence at the 2023 Birnam Book Festival, Anderson is an acclaimed poet and performer.
In her second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound, Morag Anderson places centre stage an unlikely cast of neglected, exploited, and unsung characters. These poems uncover many of the contradictions of life lived in the female body and bear witness to highly personal stories. Confident and assured of voice, she navigates womanhood and its attendant desires and abuses, permitting the reader to embrace the power and vulnerability encased in the female form. Anderson’s delicate choice of words 'unlace restraint’ and take us to the limits of the female body’s potential.
'Poems that you want to reread several times. These poems are powerful and certainly don’t shy away from hard-hitting themes about womanhood. Emotions resonate loudly. These are poems to return to, to mull over, to digest slowly.' - Debbie Grieve
'The verse is rich with alliteration, internal rhymes and neologisms. Impassioned and superbly articulated. A confident poet whose work I was glad to discover.' - Bookish Beck
And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound is a collection that explores what could be lost when people are disconnected from community and nature. Morag Anderson’s crafted poems cast a compassionate eye over the losses that come from that disconnection, but also offer a note of hope.' - Emma Lee
'Celebrating, perhaps, chronicling, maybe, but offering voice certainly to the disempowered females from now and then. A paradox of gracefulness and fierce anger Anderson looks at all the stages of womanhood. Anderson delves deep into that intuitive place that allows the poet to give voice to a plethora of emotions and perceptions that might otherwise go unnoticed.' - Bookphace
ISBN: 9781915789266
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 52g
42 pages