{"product_id":"9781781726938-flamingo","title":"Flamingo","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKathryn Bevis's Flamingo introduces a troupe of wild, unique, and captivating poems. Flamingo illuminates subjects like family, health, and the everyday, bringing us into touch with our own embodiment: our births and deaths, our struggles and joys, doing so with humour, dynamism, and spirit.\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Bevis’s Flamingo introduces us to a troupe of wild, unique, and captivating poems. Here, Bevis treats a range of subjects including work, survival, love, and mortality. Flamingo brings us into encounter with life and our own embodiment: our births and deaths, our struggles and joys, doing so with humour, dynamism, and spirit. Formally inventive, using forms from the ghazal to the gram of \u0026amp;s, all the poems take startling and original angles on their subject matter. There is humour and biting wit undercutting the sexual politics in ‘Wonder Woman Questions Her Status as a 70s Symbol of Female Empowerment.’ There are surprising metaphors and surreal narratives that uncover difficult truths and painful experiences, as in ‘Teddy’ in which a teddy bear stands in for an abusive partner. There are moving poems, too, about romantic love and family. Bevis is never afraid to explore complicated feelings for loved ones: for example in ‘Knitting Nan-Nan,’ in which the poem’s speaker knits her grandmother back to life. Often, animals are companions on the journeys that these poems make. Starlings speak in a collective flock to remind us that individualism is not the rule for all creatures. A squid trapped in a fridge echoes the collective lockdown of ‘2020’, and the grieving rituals of animals illuminate a human separation. Cancer is posed as a ring-tailed lemur, capering through the sufferer’s body, and the titular ‘Flamingo’ imagines death as a flamboyant transformation where the speaker shapeshifts into the afterlife by becoming a flamingo herself. Altogether, Flamingo is worth reading for its remarkable originality. Every poem in this book is a discovery and a joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40512178716769,"sku":"9781781726938","price":6.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28314251.jpg?v=1733379837","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781781726938-flamingo","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}