All fours

All fours

by Nia Davies
All fours

All fours

by Nia Davies

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Overview

Bodies. Rhythms. Motion. Sounds. All fours is a debut collection of poetry from Nia Davies, a book of rituals in language that stalk the space between what is uttered and what is meant. These poems are haunted by the strange traces of the longest words in the world and folk-mythic figures such as Sinbad, Eurydice, Mossy Coat, Pan and Baba Yaga. They pose riddles with multiple or mysterious answers. A swerving sweary jump into a terrain that is both comically musical and perplexedly political, All fours speaks of the (mis)adventures of sex and human communication, a life full-to-bursting with burning questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780373652
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication date: 07/03/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 66
File size: 976 KB

About the Author

Miriam Nash was born in 1985 in Inverness and grew up in Scotland, England and Wales. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and graduated with an MFA in 2014. She has performed her work internationally, and brought poetry into schools, museums, mental health organisations and prisons in the UK, USA and Singapore. She was the first Writer in Residence at Greenway, Agatha Christie’s summer home, as part of Writing Places with the National Trust, Literature Works and The Poetry Archive. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, and her pamphlet, Small Change (flipped eye), was published in 2013. She received an Eric Gregory from the Society of Authors in 2015, and was runner-up for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2016. Her first book-length collection, All the Prayers in the House, was published by Bloodaxe in 2017.

Table of Contents

You will never guess my name

About me 11

Mossy Coat 12

'I know descent lives in the word decent' 14

'& blow in the god's good wake to leave only pounded dust' 15

Pantheon 16

With Sinbad 18

The First Riddle: Pussy Riddle Dialogue 19

The Second Riddle: You will never guess my name 20

The Third Riddle: The Underbelly 21

The Fourth Riddle: no riddle 22

Happy Birthday to me

Poem with sex 27

Psychoanalysis 29

In the year ninety 30

Hello Beautiful 32

Born in a moody basket 34

If you go west 36

Listen

A word in your shell-like 39

Many Tremors 40

'We make an insubstantial territory' 41

Of course he thinks part-mythic 42

Lemon yellow epithet

The mediums of viktor ullmann 45

Relations 47

Tiny nudist colony 49

18 50

Dear Diary 52

Let's make an experience 54

From Çekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz or Long Words

The hatch a bullet flies out of when exiting a tunnel 57

For your [plural] continued behaviour as if you could not be desecrated 58

For those who were repeatedly unable to pick enough of small wood-sorrels in the past 59

Also for those who have turned like counterrevolutionaries 60

About to become the leader of a contemptible palaeontology conservatory 61

The most emotionally disturbing (or upsetting) thing 62

[Two] people trying to scatter pretended lies with each other 64

Most anticrystalising 65

Are you one of those people whom we couldn't make to be originating from Czechoslovakia 66

Try, for a variety of reasons, a sledgehammer

It is not sufficient to be waiting like this 69

Things to try before you die 71

Nature poem 72

The magical experience 73

I Want To Do Everything 74

Acknowledgements 77

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