Portrait in Mustard

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Wendy Allen’s Portrait in Mustard celebrates sex and pleasure, whilst registering the risks of intimacy for straight women in a world where men’s pleasure often comes first. This collection is alive with references to the arts and fashion. The sensuality of the poems riffs off Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, Jean Rhys’s fiction, and Anais Nin’s erotica, but there are also poems inspired by Des’ree, the West Side Story song ‘America’, a Mulberry handbag, and Richard Curtis movies. Via the unabashed tones of mustard yellow and metaphors of fruit and art, Allen’s poems create a manifesto for women’s independence, autonomy and joy. These are explicit, honest poems which embrace sex as an integral part of relationships and love.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-10-21
Mått138 x 216 x 3 mm
Vikt54 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
FörlagPoetry Wales Press
ISBN9781781727676

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Wendy Allen worked as Cabin Crew for 20 years until 2020. She began writing poetry during Lockdown and has been published in Ambit, Poetry Wales, The Moth, Poetry Ireland Review, The Rialto, The London Magazine, The North and Banshee. Wendy’s poetry centres around themes of sex, menstruation, autofiction and art, specifically sculpture and the work of Barbara Hepworth. Her debut pamphlet, ‘Plastic Tubed Little Bird’, was published in May 2023 with Broken Sleep Editions. Wendy also writes collaboratively with Dr Charley Barnes, and their collection, ‘free bleeding’, was published in February 2024. She hosts the podcast ‘What We’ve Been Reading’ and co-edits the online journal ‘annie’ with Charley, and the two have edited an anthology of erotic poetry, ‘Under Your Pillow’.