Winner of the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year 2019. Janette Ayachis dazzling first collection moves between remembered and imagined spaces as she celebrates the worlds variousness, and the energies and exhaustions of the body. Revelling in the many voices she might find for herself, Ayachi locates herself in both her Algerian and Scottish roots, her relationships with her family and lovers, her own motherhood, and an equally joyful but more precarious exploration of desire. More than anything, this book is a celebration of all Ayachi loves and has loved, especially her own daughters. It is a book that makes a space for itself in the disruptive pleasures of writing, in the face of all that might stifle her, alive to all the potentials of laughter and silence as well as song.
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Dimensions: 118 x 189mm
Publication Date: 30 Apr 2019
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781786942142
About Janette Ayachi
Janette Ayachi is a London-born Edinburgh-based Scottish-Algerian poet. She graduated with a Combined BA Honours in English Literature & Film Media from Stirling University and an MSc in Creative Writing from Edinburgh University. Shes a regular on BBC Scotland arts programmes and her work has been translated into several languages across a broad range of journals and anthologies. Her debut poetry book 'Hand Over Mouth Music' (Pavilion) won the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Literary Award 2019 and she is now working on her travel memoir 'Lonerlust'. She collaborates with artists and works with poetry in public places as well as regularly performing spoken word at festivals and events internationally.