Fantastic Voyage by Amanda Dalton Paperback Book

Description: Fantastic Voyage by Amanda Dalton By turns wryly humorous, tender and heartbroken, Fantastic Voyage takes us on journeys into our hidden and ghostly selves, our insides and our other, exploring how the human body gives voice to unspeakable truths. The bookss central long poem – a meditation on water – charts a deeply personal voyage through grief and loss. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this tender and wryly humorous poetry collection, a child travels down her own oesophagus, a woman joins a search party to look for herself, one grief-stricken soul descends into a watery underworld whilst another experiences love as demonic possession....InFantastic Voyage, Amanda Dalton takes us on journeys into our hidden and ghostly selves, our insides and our other, exploring the myriad ways in which the human body gives voice to unspeakable truths.These poems put us in and alongside bodies that are ill, out of control and inhabited - our dark innards as harbingers of secrets and fears, the gut as fortune-teller and home to ghosts.Taking inspiration from sources as disparate as human anatomy and classic 1960s science fiction, this collectioncharts a deeply personal voyage through grief and loss. Author Biography Amanda Dalton is a poet and playwright. Her debut How to Disappear was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999, and was followed by Stray in 2012. Amanda writes extensively for BBC Radio 4 and 3 including original drama, poetry-dramas, classic adaptations, re-imaginings of film, and lyric essays. Her theatre writing includes text for outdoor and site-specific performance, and drama for young people including commissions with Manchesters Royal Exchange, Sheffield Theatres and Keswicks Theatre By The Lake. Table of Contents 9 Fantastic Voyage10 Belly10 Takotsubo10 Gut10 A Ghost Story11 Look Inside!12 When Andrea was 713 Auntie Irene says14 One day I watch15 Andreas father16 One day I ask17 Mum says Nancy Gardiner18 Janet Bradley says19 One day I go for a colonoscopy20 Peter B says21 Aged 9, Andrea doesnt know22 One day, I was sawn in half23 Notes on Water39 Haunts and Apparitions41 Nights I Squat42 Magic44 December 197945 Three Hauntings45 1 Pelican46 2 Girl in White with Trees47 3 Man Dressed as Bat48 Missing49 The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary51 like a tree53 The Possibility of Fog54 Ten Signs of Possession54 1 Superhuman Strength55 2 Knowledge of Previously Unknown Languages or Speaking in Tongues (glossolalia).56 3 Unnatural Body Movements57 4 Appearance of Wounds that Vanish as Quickly as They Appear58 5 Paranormal Capabilities59 6 Living Outside the Rules of Society60 7 Being Persistently Ill, Falling into Heavy Sleep and Vomiting Strange Objects61 8 Being Troubled by Spirits62 9 Being Uncomfortable, Ugly and Violent63 10 Making Sounds and Movements Like an Animal64 Aftermath67 Untitled68 Fantastic Voyage70 Notes71 Acknowledgements Review Here is a magnificent poem of poems: a surging, truth-bound voyage that offers no easy purpose, acceptance, or ending. -- David Morley * The Poetry Review, on the pamphlet of Notes on Water (now included in Fantastic Voyage) *Dark, funny, wise, terrifying. She is searingly matter-of-fact about the most painful recesses of the human heart… She dances round every corner with a grace that many more seasoned writers would die for. -- Jo ShapcottDalton looks in the face of despair and tells its story with unnerving calm. -- Siân Hughes * TES * Details ISBN1780377118 Author Amanda Dalton Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781780377117 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-05-23 Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd Place of Publication Tyne and Wear Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781780377124 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-05-23 AU Release Date 2024-11-12 Pages 72 Edition Description Paperback original ISBN-10 1780377118 DEWEY 821.914 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159982132;

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