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[New post] Friday Poem – ‘[ search ]’ by Sammy Weaver

Site logo image Seren Books posted: " This week's Friday Poem is '[ search ]' by Sammy Weaver from her pamphlet Angola, America which won this year's Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize. Angola, America, winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021, takes its name from a prison in Louis" Seren Books Blog

Friday Poem – '[ search ]' by Sammy Weaver

Seren Books

Sep 2

This week's Friday Poem is '[ search ]' by Sammy Weaver from her pamphlet Angola, America which won this year's Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize.

This cover shows a geometric image of think white lines against black stripes. A gaping white hole is cut from the middle. The text reads: Angola, America. Sammy Weaver.

Angola, America, winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021, takes its name from a prison in Louisiana in the southern United Sates. In these strikingly original, thoroughly contemporary, and deeply moving poems, we are immersed in the world the inmates must endure. From the first poem, when we witness a home-made tattoo and understand that this scarring and incision is a "map in the connective tissue of pain and loss", we are drawn into this world in a way that is carefully observed and beautifully empathetic.

[ search ]   In the beginning the guard's gloved hands pat you down, searching for weapons, his touch is weaponized, the muted duty  of his movements smooth along each of your arms.   Soon the guard's touch is the only touch  from another  and you think of your mother  after bath time, the harbour of her chest  against yours, the rough-love of her towelling  you dry, reaching into all the nooks  and crannies, no cabbages behind the ears  she says.  And yes, I guess searching the body  is another way of saying the body is a trove  of treasure and your touch a torch.

Angola, America is available on the Seren website: £6.00

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Read Sammy's poem '[ exhibit : electric chair ]' and a comment about 'How she did it' on the Mslexia website.

The Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2022 is now open for entries. Find out more here.

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