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Slip

Amelia Loulli
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd)
Published: May 23, 2024
ISBN: 9781787334670
80 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£13.00

Amelia Loulli opens this fearless, frank, absorbing debut with the words ‘I’m going to tell you what happened’, and that is precisely what she does. With these careful, generous, insistent poems, we are led through the experience of abortion and surprised at every turn. There is vulnerability and despair, there is the shame and silence too, but there is also the constant, steady pulse of compassion, tenderness and wonder at the world.

Slip is a daring book, not just in subject but in style: skilfully worked, integrating the rich terror of nursery rhymes and folk tales with the bland banalities and euphemisms of social interaction, of medical techniques. It is also, sadly, a necessary book – provocative and transformative poetry about women as mothers and survivors. A cry of fury and a cry of love.

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