In her second chapbook, *And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound*, Morag Anderson places centre stage an unlikely cast of neglected, exploited, and unsung characters.
These poems uncover many of the contradictions of life lived in the female body and bear witness to largely forgotten yet highly-personal stories, woman by woman, girl by girl. Confident and assured of voice, she navigates womanhood and its attendant desires and abuses, permitting the reader to embrace the power and vulnerability encased in the female form. Anderson's delicate choice of words 'unlace restraint' and take us to the limits of the female body's potential.
Publisher: Fly on the Wall Press
ISBN: 9781915789266
Number of pages: 42
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
Dr Maura Dooley said: "Whether considering landscape, a chapter in history, childbirth, child loss, 'I am living by the tick of a stopped clock', reimagining the lives of three women important in Robert Burns's life or relishing the longing in a sense of home, 'In the bittersweet lull/between two days,/open your mouth/to salted air - //and I will make of you a vowel sound.' these are poems of delicacy and import. This is a confident, assured voice able to face grief 'Loss - a thorn that cannot be drawn/by clenched teeth..' yet still be wry about loss and difference, '...me, the rusted iron barb/of a neglected fence,/you, the snagged fur/of a mountain hare.'"
Aside from the subject matter of the poems, which is relevant, contemporary and worthily political, Morag Anderson delights the reader with her ear for the musicality of language. Her poems bite with jarring but... More
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