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    Makeover: Poems
    Makeover: Poems
    Makeover: Poems
    Ebook37 pages13 minutes

    Makeover: Poems

    By Laurie Bolger and Amy Louise Evans

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    Makeover is a book dripping with nostalgia, cigarette ash and sour cream dip. Lit by too-close TV screens and too-bright calorie counters, Bolger's poems explore growing up, differing bodies and societal expectations.
    Writing in praise of mums, nans and sisterhood, this is a work bursting with strength, anger, love and, ultimately, hope. In a celebration of girls shaped by swimming baths and Working Men's Clubs, friendship and family, Makeover contends with what we inherit and what we ought to pass on.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Emma Press
    Release dateFeb 15, 2024
    ISBN9781915628251
    Makeover: Poems
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    Laurie Bolger

    Laurie Bolger is a London based writer and founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club. Her debut pamphlet 'Box Rooms' (Burning Eye) has featured at Glastonbury, TATE, RA & Sky Arts. Laurie’s writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Magma, Crannog, Stand, & Trinity College Icarus & her poems & short stories have been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, Live Canon, Winchester & Sylvia Plath Prizes. In 2023, Laurie’s poem ‘Parkland Walk’ was awarded The Moth Prize, judged by Louise Glück, and Highly Commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry.

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      PRAISE FOR MAKEOVER

      ‘Laurie Bolger’s writing is a best friend, a memory, a picnic, a hug and a punch. I want to live without weighing things is maybe my favourite line of poetry this year, and definitely my new life motto. Stunning.’

      – Hollie McNish

      ‘Intimate, warm, and with teeth-clenching wit, Bolger turns the domestic into an epic. Her leaps of surreality are breathtaking, unexpected and painful. Moving, tender and always curious, Makeover is a book that will hold your hand in the supermarket.’

      – Joelle Taylor

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