{"product_id":"anupama-pilbrow-body-poems-db3","title":"Anupama Pilbrow, Body Poems (dB3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBody Poems\u003c\/em\u003e collects the body, in its total glory and filthiness, and gleefully displays it in 15 grotesque poems. They are joyful poems about the body. They are unapologetically violent and paranoid and dark poems about the body. They are flippant and sensual and funny poems about the body. They are simple and easy-to-read and surprising poems about the body. They are poems best read on an empty stomach. In \u003cem\u003eBody Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, things happen simultaneously. The tender is brutal, the brutal tender. You are allowed to be disgusting and you are allowed to be delicious. Here beauty arrives in the most surprising disguises. This is a dizzying, fearless collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Anupama’s work has a cool fearlessness that is utterly spellbinding. To engage with her work is to enter a room in the house of poetry where no-one has to keep their voice down—where ideas of what a poet is ‘allowed’ to write about no longer apply. When we spend time with work like this, we learn how much there is to be gained from writing that is willing to be both beautiful and unapologetic.' Alice Allan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'In \u003cem\u003eBody Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, Anupama Pilbrow turns her wildly estranging eye on the site of all human experience: the body. For the fizzing consciousnesses that we encounter in these cultivated blurts, ecstasy ominously augurs derangement, innocence is always abutted by menace, and beauty arrives in the most surprising disguises. These are poems that will not sit still in class. Metabolising the cerebral and the sensual into a richly surreal potpourri, \u003cem\u003eBody Poems\u003c\/em\u003e takes a scalpel to the skins we inhabit and the minds abiding therein, only to find that when cut, they bleed maggots and rainbows. It’s a pleasure to read poetry so funny, so poignant and so gleefully grotesque, and to lurch whatever which way it takes us.' - Gerard Elson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnupama Pilbrow\u003c\/strong\u003e co-edits \u003ci\u003eThe Suburban Review\u003c\/i\u003e and co-manages \u003ci\u003ePoetry Donut: The Melbourne Poetry Reading Group\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2015, she received the Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship for her manuscript \u003ci\u003ethe ravage space\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems, reviews, and essays have been published in journals and anthologies including \u003ci\u003eCordite Poetry Review, Rabbit Poetry Journal, JEASA, Southerly \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Hunter Anthology of Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work often deals with diaspora, dialogue, exchange, and gross stuff. She lives in Narrm\/Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnupama Pilbrow, \u003cem\u003eBody Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (dB3)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2018. 24pp. 120mm x 150mm ISBN 978-1-925735-10-9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003edeciBels series 3 (edited by Michelle Cahill and Dimitra Harvey) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":5239336206373,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/dB3cover_Pilbrow.jpg?v=1516943151","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/es\/products\/anupama-pilbrow-body-poems-db3","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}