Bone Ovation Breda SullivanBird, beast or man, we each have the same element at our core: bones. While our forms may change, the bones always remain and in this thrilling debut, the poet celebrates their beauty and structure though folk tales, philosophy, day dreams and night terrors. Aided by a host of characters including a girl who fell in love with a mountain, a woman who can only ever look at you sideways, and a man made of bees, Caroline Hardaker creates a dozen
He’s all she can talk about
followed by a seven year itch in the USA
influenced by the songs which soundtrack everyday life
crowds stormed arms depots
the poem explores the ineffable by sending it up in a domestic setting that subverts as it disconcerts
Point Pleasant
hallucination
In 2004 the Poetry Book Society and Arts Council named her as one of the Next Generation Poets
Barbara Board (1916-1986) was a rare woman foreign correspondent
Some of My Best Friends Are Blues
And I must serve their freedoms with my own
loss of a friend to suicide)
