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    The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse
    The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse
    The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse
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    The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse

    By Emma Dai'an Wright

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    The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse is haunting, romantic, and full of dark doorways and strange spaces which readers will get thoroughly lost in. It's a hand in a velvet glove, ready to grasp you by the elbow and lead you through an array of ravishing and heart-racing encounters. This anthology engages deeply and playfully with the rich and unsettling tradition of gothic literature from which these poems emerge, and updates it for a 21st century readership. The featured poets twist traditional stories, set the rule books on fire, and know that to truly surprise and unnerve, you may have to traverse some wild, remote places...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Emma Press
    Release dateOct 17, 2019
    ISBN9781912915378
    The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse
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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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      The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse - Nisha Bhakoo

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      THE EMMA PRESS

      ANTHOLOGY OF

      CONTEMPORARY

      GOTHIC VERSE

      OTHER TITLES FROM THE EMMA PRESS

      POETRY ANTHOLOGIES

      Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts

      In Transit: Poems of Travel

      Second Place Rosette: Poems about Britain

      Everything That Can Happen: Poems about the Future

      BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

      The Head that Wears a Crown: Poems about Kings and Queens

      The Adventures of Na Willa, by Reda Gaudiamo

      When It Rains, by Rassi Narika

      Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs

      Super Guppy, by Edward van de Vendel

      PROSE PAMPHLETS

      Postcard Stories, by Jan Carson

      First fox, by Leanne Radojkovich

      The Secret Box, by Daina Tabūna

      POETRY PAMPHLETS

      priced out, by Conor Cleary

      The Stack Of Owls Is Getting Higher, by Dawn Watson

      A warm and snouting thing, by Ramona Herdman

      The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju, by Sascha Aurora Akhtar

      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 the UK in 2019 by the Emma Press Ltd

      Poems copyright © individual copyright holders 2019

      Selection copyright © Nisha Bhakoo 2019

      Illustrations copyright © Emma Dai’an Wright 2019

      All rights reserved.

      The right of Nisha Bhakoo 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 978-1-912915-36-1

      EPUB ISBN 978-1-912915-37-8

      A CIP catalogue record of this book

      is available from the British Library.

      Printed and bound in the UK

      by TJ International, Padstow.

      The Emma Press

      theemmapress.com

      hello@theemmapress.com

      Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, UK

      INTRODUCTION

      My hope for this anthology was to showcase poems that pointed to the uncanniness of our present time, giving traditional gothic tropes a compelling, contemporary flavour. I not only wanted the poems to hold up a mirror to our post-postmodern age, but also to challenge the norms and unwritten rules of it.

      I chose these

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