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Boom!
Boom!
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad o gerddi yn myfyrio ar y profiad o fod yn fam, ar ryfeddod, arswyd a llawenydd profiad sy'n newid bywyd am byth, ac ar y dewisiadau y mae gofyn i rieni modern eu hwynebu.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
'Boom' by Carolyn Jess-Cooke is the title poem of this new collection from Seren Books that focuses on motherhood: the baby arrives in the family 'like a hand grenade' and nothing is quite the same again.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781721759
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781721759
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Boom!
- Awdur / Author
- Jess-Cooke; Carolyn
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2014-04-17
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 72 pages
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Barddoniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Poetry (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Beirdd Unigol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Individual Poets (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1978 and currently lives in north-east England. Her debut poetry collection INROADS (Seren, 2010) received a Northern Promise Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Tyrone Guthrie Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the New London Poetry Prize. Her debut novel The Guardian Angel’s Journal (Little, Brown/Piatkus, 2011) was published in 22 languages and her second novel, The Boy Who Could See Demons, is being made into a film. A number of her poetry commissions are featured in public art installations around England, including a poem set into a 700m ribbon of steel that runs throughout a mental health complex in Middlesbrough. She has performed her work at many festivals and venus around the world, including the Sydney Writers' Festival, the Irish Writers Centre and at the Sage Gateshead. She is mother to four children aged 1, 3, 5, and 7.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
The title poem of this new collection of poems by Carolyn Jess-Cooke: ‘Boom!’ enacts the moment when the new baby arrives in the family ‘like a hand grenade’. ‘Becoming a mother changed me in every single way,’ says the author, ‘my first child – born in October 2006 – just about knocked me sideways. There were many reasons for this, but here’s the biggest one: I could not believe how public and political the (hugely personal) experience of motherhood was.’ A noted academic, author of a book about film and Shakespeare, and a best-selling popular novelist ‘The Guardian Angel’s Journal’ and ‘The Boy Who Could See Demons’, Jess-Cooke found, as many parents do, that the juggling act required to raise young children and continue a professional and creative life, is both exhausting and fulfilling. The poems chronicle the rapturous moments, such as ‘Wakening’ where the baby is observed: ‘the seedling eyes stirred by sunlight’. There are also the tragi-comic ‘Nights’ full of ‘small elbows in the face’ and ‘assailed by colds and colic’. Jess-Cooke doesn’t flinch from the darker fears and depressions that can afflict parents. There are also pieces of pointed satirical intent and socio-political comment such as ‘Poem made from bits of Newspaper Headlines ’ and ‘The Only Dad in Playgroup’. Viewing motherhood from a multiplicity of artful angles, the author says, ‘Coupled with all this was the love I had for my children. It completely and utterly blew me away, how much I could love another human being.’
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