Sunshine / Melissa Lee-Houghton.

  • Lee-Houghton, Melissa
Date:
2016
  • Books

About this work

Description

Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain. Sunshine combines acute social observation with a dark, surreal humour born of first-hand experience. Abuse, addiction and mental health are all subject to Lee-Houghton's poetic eye. But these are also poems of extravagance, hope and desire, that stake new ground for the Romantic lyric in an age of social media and internet porn. In this new book of poems, Melissa Lee-Houghton shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision. Includes 'i am very precious' - Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016.

Publication/Creation

London : Penned in the Margins, 2016.

Physical description

88 pages ; 22 cm

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Contents

And all the things that we do I could face today -- Videos -- Z -- You can watch me undress -- The price you see reflects the poor quality of the item and your lack of desire for it -- Loneliness -- Letter to Dr. Ali concerning our suicide pact -- Letter to Dr. Moosa regarding my inconstant heart -- Hangings -- Mouth -- i am very precious -- Woodlea -- Cobra -- Sunshine -- My girl -- Blue prelude -- A good home -- Love-smitten heart -- Wishlist -- Beautiful bodies -- Last trip -- Hella -- Elm Street -- Samson Beach -- Mad girl in love -- He cried out to the God of austerities who said on the seventh day you shall tax, pillage and burn -- Hope.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 1908058382
  • 9781908058386