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    Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts
    Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts
    Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts
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    Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts

    By Emma Dai'an Wright

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    The Emma Press Book of Beasts rustles and roars with the voices of animals and humans, co-existing on Earth with varying degrees of harmony. A scorpion appears in a shower; a deer jumps in front of a car. A swarm of snowfleas seethes through leaf litter; children bait a gorilla at the zoo. The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy, herds, power, and the price we pay for belonging.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Emma Press
    Release dateAug 12, 2018
    ISBN9781910139875
    Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts
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    Emma Dai'an Wright

    Emma Dai'an Wright (1986) is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press with the support of the Prince's Trust. She has since published over 500 writers across more than 70 books, including poetry anthologies for adults and children, short stories, and translations. In 2016 The Emma Press won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publishers. She lives in Birmingham.

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      Book preview

      Some Cannot Be Caught - Liane Strauss

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      SOME CANNOT BE CAUGHT

      THE EMMA PRESS BOOK OF BEASTS

      OTHER TITLES FROM THE EMMA PRESS

      POETRY ANTHOLOGIES

      The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea

      This Is Not Your Final Form: Poems about Birmingham

      The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts

      The Emma Press Anthology of Love

      BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

      Moon Juice, by Kate Wakeling

      The Noisy Classroom, by Ieva Flamingo

      The Queen of Seagulls, by Rūta Briede

      The Book of Clouds, by Juris Kronbergs

      PROSE PAMPHLETS

      Postcard Stories, by Jan Carson

      First fox, by Leanne Radojkovich

      The Secret Box, by Daina Tabūna

      Me and My Cameras, by Malachi O’Doherty

      POETRY PAMPHLETS

      Dragonish, by Emma Simon

      Pisanki, by Zosia Kuczyńska

      Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real, by Padraig Regan

      Paisley, by Rakhshan Rizwan

      THE EMMA PRESS PICKS

      The Dragon and The Bomb, by Andrew Wynn Owen

      Meat Songs, by Jack Nicholls

      Birmingham Jazz Incarnation, by Simon Turner

      Bezdelki, by Carol Rumens

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      THE EMMA PRESS

      First published in Great Britain in 2018 by the Emma Press Ltd

      Poems copyright © individual copyright holders 2018

      Selection copyright © Anja Konig and Liane Strauss 2018

      All illustrations created by Emma Wright from images found on Early English Books Online (EEBO).

      All rights reserved.

      The right of Anja Konig and Liane Strauss to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      ISBN 978-1-910139-88-2

      A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

      Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow.

      The Emma Press

      theemmapress.com

      queries@theemmapress.com

      Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, UK

      EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

      Anja: Humans are animals. I have long found this a clarifying thought. There is much we have in common, most importantly the desire to belong to the herd, which is the hallmark of any social species. As with other social animals, we pay a price for this belonging: our obsession with hierarchy, with knowing who is top dog; power structures, pecking orders. The human animal is capable of competition and collaboration, aggression and love.

      Liane: And of course, humans are not the only animals who form friendships, are capable of selflessness and can act out of the desire to help others. Recent research confirms that ‘monkeys, apes, dogs, and a growing list of other mammals, can recognize and protest unfair conditions’. Not only this, but: ‘Animals employ various forms of punishment… [that bear a] striking resemblance to our most effective modes of rehabilitative and restorative justice.’¹

      You might say science is finally catching up to what poets at least as far back as Aesop have always known, that the boundary lines humans like

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