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Gold Light Shining
Bebe Ashley
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Description for Gold Light Shining
Paperback.
In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is illuminated in poems that explore celebrity, obsession, sexuality, coming of age, and that charismatic enigma, Harry Styles. Inspired by sources as diverse as Styles's track listings, Scandi webseries Skam, and One Direction newsletters, Ashley spins us across continents on a tour of the surreal highs and absurd lows of celebrity culture. These are poems of youth and yearning, yet they're suffused with the hard-won wisdom that the communities we build can be as meaningful as ... Read more
In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is illuminated in poems that explore celebrity, obsession, sexuality, coming of age, and that charismatic enigma, Harry Styles. Inspired by sources as diverse as Styles's track listings, Scandi webseries Skam, and One Direction newsletters, Ashley spins us across continents on a tour of the surreal highs and absurd lows of celebrity culture. These are poems of youth and yearning, yet they're suffused with the hard-won wisdom that the communities we build can be as meaningful as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Banshee Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
, Ireland
ISBN
9780995655089
SKU
9780995655089
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-4
About Bebe Ashley
Bebe Ashley lives in Belfast. She is an AHRC funded PhD candidate at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. Her work can be found in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Jukebox and The Tangerine. When procrastinating from her PhD, she takes British Sign Language and Braille classes and writes pop culture articles ... Read more
Reviews for Gold Light Shining
'This is a kaleidoscopic book, full of its own light, its prisms, its beautiful forms.' Stephen Sexton 'Lush and dizzying, these are poems of longing and enchantment stitched with flashes of beauty: poems of yellow silk trousers, secrets, blue eyes, and "the low snarl of midnight skies".' Doireann Ni Ghriofa 'A lush mixtape of love poems to an ... Read more