Ebook: Stranger, Baby
Author: Berry Emily
- Tags: English poetry, English poetry--21st century, LITERARY CRITICISM--Poetry, Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets, Poetry By Individual Poets, POETRY--English Irish Scottish Welsh, English poetry -- 21st century, POETRY -- English Irish Scottish Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- City: London
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- epub
'The loss of a mother must be something very strange', observed Sigmund Freud, a reflection that haunts this intense and powerful new book.
Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013.Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and often agonising encounter with childhood loss. Love, anger, tenderness, violence: all find expression in poems powered by grief's tidal undertow. This is a book of mourning, recrimination, exhilaration, and 'oceanic feeling', where familiarity meets strangeness and despair becomes a kind of celebration.