Sapphic & Sweary: Feminist Poetry with Jane Aldous
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Contact: email: books@lighthousebookshop.com Phone: 0131 662 9112
Jane Aldous and Jane Goldman are joining Lighthouse Books at this year's Edinburgh Book Fringe for a feminist poetry showcase that promises to be totally captivating (as well as very gay and very sweary)!
Aldous's 2023 collection More Patina than Gleam (Arachne Press) celebrates outsiders getting by in hard times - the day to day grind of cleaning a house, periods, prejudice, ageing, sexuality and falling in and out of love.
In the words of Joy Howard: "A novella in seventy sonnets, and a page turner at that - some achievement! Aldous has given us a rare treat. An absorbing narrative of both actual and emotional journeys are given life on the page".
Goldman's latest collection, Catullus 64, offers a "meticulous line by line translation from the Latin into richly textured contemporary English that honours Catullus's powerful experiment in holding to account the politics of epic poetics by the competing politics of his renowned erotic lyricism. Catullus 64 is thus a biting satire on martial imperialism, an indictment of its reliance on the marital institution of compulsory heterosexuality."
Catullus 64 follows on from SEKXPHRASTIKS, described as "a derangement of the senses as well as a sharp intersectional appraisal of encounter, often going beyond the human" by Maria Sledmere in Spam Zine.
Both are vital feminist voices, weaving thoughts about the human body, the natural environment, and our socio-political surroundings to explosive poetry.
Entry: Donations welcome
Time: duration 45 mins
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