Outlandish

Jo Clement (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

80 Seiten

2022
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-614-1 (ISBN)

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Jo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. Her poems consider notions of otherness, trespass, and craft. Compelled by a brutal Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller diasporic legacy, Outlandish tenderly praises the poem-as-protest and illuminates a hidden and threatened culture.

Jo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to consider notions of otherness, trespass, and craft. She steps between ancient stopping places and mardy council estates to trill elegiac Romanes, English, and birdsong about witches, wild camping, and Silver Cross prams. Compelled by a brutal Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller diasporic legacy, Outlandish tenderly praises the poem-as-protest and illuminates a hidden and threatened culture.

Born in Darlington in 1986, Jo Clement received a scholarship to gain a PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She has published two pamphlets, including Moveable Type (2020). She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria University, Editor of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine, and founded the imprint Wagtail with support from the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).

Born in Darlington in 1986, Jo Clement is the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award and the Editor of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine. With support from the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), she is the founder of the imprint Wagtail. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport, Melita Hume and Troubadour International prizes. She has written for The Travellers’ Times, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Your Local Arena, and currently works as a Creative Writing Lecturer at Northumbria University. She lives in North Shields. Jo holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University, which was awarded an inaugural AHRC Northern Bridge scholarship. With Arts Council England support, Outlandish was first commissioned by New Writing North for the 2019 Durham Book Festival as a collaborative walking and writing book co-authored with Damian Le Bas, with drawings by W. John Hewitt. Jo’s debut pamphlet Moveable Type (New Writing North) was published in 2020. Her first book-length collection, also titled Outlandish, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2022.

11 Prefatory note

15 The Impression of Water
16 Family Silver
17 Vault
20 Inheritance
21 King Faa
22 Teesdale Erratics
23 Big Fat Gypsy Swindle
24 Cobsong
26 At Eildon
27 Smithsong
28 Market
29 Mass
30 The Sly and Unseen Day
31 Tinker’s Tea
32 Knots
33 Larch
34 The Graver
35 Wild Camp
36 Ironwork, V&A
37 Outlandish
38 Haunt
39 Crown
40 Paisley
41 Vardo
42 A Stopping-Place
43 Craft
44 Pome
45 Pollard
46 Playing Cards
48 Self-portrait as 100 Travellers
49 Wonderful Fish
50 Giftorse
51 Nightjar
52 The Romani Star
53 Le Bûcher
54 Causeway
55 Periwinkle
56 Manes
57 Polished
58 Travelling Light
59 Rite
60 Singing Lesson
62 Homecoming
64 FLASH!
65 Prophet Mark
66 Shoed
67 Dirce (The Bull’s Shadow)
68 Fetlock
69 Groundsheet
70 Aubade
71 Passage
72 Caulbearer

75 Notes and dedications
77 List of illustrations

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2022
Verlagsort	Tyne and Wear
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-78037-614-6 / 1780376146
ISBN-13	978-1-78037-614-1 / 9781780376141
Zustand	Neuware