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Baby Schema

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173880
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Isabel Galleymore
  • Price: AUD $29.99
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  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 01/06/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 72 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024. Trees crawling with babies, babies darting through the sky or buoyed by thermal vents, babies painted with false eyes (Fable) In Isabel Galleymores second collection, the adorable other is not just an imagined future child, but also a tree frog, a weather-worn statue and often the speaker herself, who dreams of quitting adulthood and an endangered world. Mother Earth is less an entity to be revered than a command to care-giving. Lyrics and syllabically-constrained fables examine the play and power involved in creating new life, whether biologically or via cartoonists animation. Galleymore hones in on cuteness and its relationships to hyper-capitalism and environmental crisis to produce a deliberately queasy ecopoetics. Animal extinctions are likened to failed businesses and sainthood is granted to a dubious character named Michael Mouse. Studies of wild creatures join those of pets, pot plants and animal videos: here is a new nature - one shaped by the extremes of our contemporary desires.

Isabel Galleymores first collection, Significant Other, won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. She lives in Birmingham, UK and is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham, and a Fellow at Harvards Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study 2022-23.

• Galleymore’s debut collection won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2020 and was shortlisted for the Forward (Best First Collection), Seamus Heaney, and Michael Murphy Poetry Prizes • This highly anticipated second collection is ecopoetry that explores cuteness, care and commodification in an age of hyper-capitalism and environmental crisis • Challenges ecopoetic tradition by exploring the prevalence of ‘baby schema’ - a set of infantile features including large eyes, round cheeks, stubby limbs - in our familiar environments • Explores the choice of becoming a mother in an era of environmental crisis • Includes a poem sequence on Disneyland written in situ

This is a vital new voice for our age of climate change denial - Poetry Book Society

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