Clueless Dogs By Rhian Edwards
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Brave and beautiful this remarkable debut collection of poetry features the edgy modern voice of an urban female From poems of a fraught childhood in Bridgend south Wales where a sensitive child escapes through imaginative games to works depicting student rivalries damaged peers and tense situations associated with teenage problems this compilation matures with an underlying sweetness Additional poems explore the sensual rapture of love and the clear eyed realization of its inevitable disappointments Clueless DogsRhian s first collection of poems Clueless Dogs Seren is shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2013 It was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012 while her pamphlet of poems Parade the Fib Tall Lighthouse was awarded the Poetry Book Society Choice for autumn 2008. Clueless dog meme Rhian is the current winner of the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry having won both the Judges and Audience award which is the highest accolade for a performance poet in Wales. Clueless dog meme Rhian s poems have appeared in the Guardian Times Literary Supplement Poetry Review Arete the Spectator Poetry London Poetry Wales Prague Revue the London Magazine Stand Planet Magazine and the Lampeter Review. Clueless dog meme Rhian is currently the first Writer in Residen Rhian s first collection of poems Clueless Dogs Seren is shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2013 It was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012 while her pamphlet of poems Parade the Fib Tall Lighthouse was awarded the Poetry Book Society Choice for autumn 2008. Clueless dog meme Rhian is the current winner of the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry having won both the Judges and Audience award which is the highest accolade for a performance poet in Wales. Clueless dog meme Rhian s poems have appeared in the Guardian Times Literary Supplement Poetry Review Arete the Spectator Poetry London Poetry Wales Prague Revue the London Magazine Stand Planet Magazine and the Lampeter Review. Clueless documentary Rhian is currently the first Writer in Residence at Aberystwyth Arts Centre from March to June 2013 She is also working again with Sculptor David Annand to compose a poem to be engraved into the new sculpture at Ynysawdre further to their recent collaboration in Bridgend Town Centre. Clueless dog meme Rhian is a poet and musician and has delivered over 300 stage radio and festival performances world wide She lives in South Wales with her husband Blake and their dog Lola They are expecting their first child site_link A brilliant unsettling and darkly humorous collection including a tour de force piece with an extended cannibalism metaphor The author reads her work with a fierce dramatic intensity that is not to be missed if the opportunity arises English A beautiful and haunting collection of poetry where words echoed off the pages and entered my heart I feel as though most of this poetry should be read out loud to feel the full effect of its lyrical sentences English Some I really loved others i didn t get but will be going back to reread at some stage English I have a problem with giving a lot of works five stars I ll admit but Clueless Dogs I believe truly deserves top marks As a advocate for the disturbing and the creepy Rhian Edwards collection of poems satisfy my craving for the depraved Her pace even in the longer poems keeps you constantly on edge especially the ones surrounding infidelity Some of the poems are painful to read some are oddly uplifting in their trueness to reality Rhian Edwards is a great voice for Welsh literature and collections such as Clueless Dogs will hopefully offer a resurgence in the nations canon English .