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    Bear

    By Chrissy Williams

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    The lively ‘bears’ in this playful and poignant collection will surprise you on every page. They are poems of love and death, life, loss and grief. The ephemera of popular culture is used to confront mortality, and you’ll be transported from the British Library to the Alps to the International Space Station, along with a vibrant cast of Vikings, videogames and Angela Lansbury. From the ludicrous to the domestic, these profound, wry and very real bears affirm that hope may be found even in our darkest moments.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloodaxe Books
    Release dateJul 7, 2017
    ISBN9781780373331
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    Chrissy Williams

    Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor based in London. Her work has been featured by the BBC and her first book-length collection Bear (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) was one of the Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year. The author of numerous pamphlets, her work has been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award, and published in many magazines and anthologies including Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry London and Salt's Best British Poetry series. She is editor of the online poetry journal PERVERSE, and previously worked both at the National Poetry Library and as Director of the Poetry Book Fair. She is also an improviser and edits comics, including the New York Times bestselling The Wicked + The Divine. Her second book-length collection, Low, is published by Bloodaxe in 2021.

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      Bear - Chrissy Williams

      CHRISSY WILLIAMS

      BEAR

      The lively ‘bears’ in this playful and poignant collection will surprise you on every page. They are poems of love and death, life, loss and grief. The ephemera of popular culture is used to confront mortality, and you’ll be transported from the British Library to the Alps to the International Space Station, along with a vibrant cast of Vikings, videogames and Angela Lansbury. From the ludicrous to the domestic, these profound, wry and very real bears affirm that hope may be found even in our darkest moments.

      Chrissy Williams has published several pamphlets, one of which was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Bear is her first book-length collection.

      ‘Chrissy Williams is my new favourite poet. These poems are as close and intimate as a bear breathing down your neck, about to take you in its arms or tear you limb from limb; as strange and unexpected as a bear playing the piano and as beautiful and inexplicable as love.’ – Luke Kennard

      ‘In spite of its almost absurdist character and apparent playfulness, Chrissy Williams’s Bear is a collection of poems that deal with all that is most serious in human life. From start to finish, these wonderfully various, entertaining and original poems speak the language of compassion, intimacy and faith.’ – Annie Freud

      ‘A pleasure in pluralism.’ – Richard O’Brien, Poetry London

      ‘Fasten your seatbelts. Something powerful is taking off here.’ – Christie Williamson, Sphinx

      Cover artwork: Tom Humberstone (www.tomhumberstone.com)

      CHRISSY WILLIAMS

      BEAR

      CONTENTS

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Bear of the Artist

      LOVE

      Gone

      Robot Unicorn Attack

      JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION in the Spring

      The Lost

      Green Lake

      Bliss

      Sonnet for Zookeeper

      On Getting Boney M’s Cover of ‘Mary’s Boy Child’ by Harry Belafonte Stuck in My Head

      Sheep

      from Groundhog Day

      The art of editing

      Poem in Which I Respond to Notes in the Margins of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Selections

      Bedroom Filled With Foam

      Wet Days Are the Worst

      Over Dave’s Trousers

      Jam

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