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Waiting for Bluebeard
Helen Ivory
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Description for Waiting for Bluebeard
Paperback. The dream-like, myth-inspired poems of Helen Ivory's fourth collection from Bloodaxe portray the part-remembered, part-imagined childhood of the girl who grows up to be a woman living in Bluebeard's house. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 180.
Waiting for Bluebeard tries to understand how a girl could grow up to be the woman living in Bluebeard's house. The story begins with a part-remembered, part-imagined childhood, where seances are held, and a father drowns in oil beneath the skeleton of his car. When her childhood home coughs up birds in the parlour, the girl enters Bluebeard's house paying the tariff of a single layer of skin. This is only the first stage of her disappearing, as she searches for a phantom child in a house where Bluebeard haunts the corridors like a sobbing wolf. Waiting for Bluebeard is ... Read more
Waiting for Bluebeard tries to understand how a girl could grow up to be the woman living in Bluebeard's house. The story begins with a part-remembered, part-imagined childhood, where seances are held, and a father drowns in oil beneath the skeleton of his car. When her childhood home coughs up birds in the parlour, the girl enters Bluebeard's house paying the tariff of a single layer of skin. This is only the first stage of her disappearing, as she searches for a phantom child in a house where Bluebeard haunts the corridors like a sobbing wolf. Waiting for Bluebeard is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249755
SKU
V9781852249755
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About Helen Ivory
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears, and is a lecturer for the UEA/National Centre for Writing online creative writing programme. She has published five collections with Bloodaxe Books: The Double Life of Clocks (2002), The Dog in the Sky (2006), The Breakfast Machine (2010), Waiting for Bluebeard (2013) and The ... Read more
Reviews for Waiting for Bluebeard
A direct approach, via deep folklore and dream imagery, to the conundrum of being a woman…in keeping with what I think we mean when we say "women’s writing". This book is mischievously dark, rich with anti-logic and harnessed to the power of something we used to call magic.
Katy Evans-Bush Helen Ivory creates a troubled yet beguiling world rich ... Read more
Katy Evans-Bush Helen Ivory creates a troubled yet beguiling world rich ... Read more