Treasure

Jemima Foxtrot is a writer, performer and theatremaker from Yorkshire, living in Berlin. She has written several critically acclaimed works for the stage and has toured these works internationally. Treasure is her third collection of poetry.

'Treasure is an aptly chosen title for this collection, both as a noun (that quantity of precious ore dug from the stuff of experience) and as a verb (the imperative to seek out, sing, and cherish joy through the sharing of it). Foxtrot is a savvy, sometimes savage, sensualist; her poetic speakers alert to injustice, but alive to pleasure in every way that counts. These are superbly tactile poems, poems of being-in-the-body, and being-in-the-world; they are full of wit, vigour and feminist jouissance. These are also formally exciting poems, poems that showcase a beautifully bold and oddly tender lyric defiance.' Fran Lock'This is a collection of the body, of love, sex, friendship, transformation, politics, which speaks of glowing mornings and late nights; crisscrossing the poet's experiences across Berlin and the UK. Foxtrot's writing is moving, radical and innovative - full of verve and courage, vivid and electric. Foxtrot is one of our most potent laureates of material experience, of the rich, tangy, painful and complicated pith of living.' Rebecca Tamas