The Girl Aquarium
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Jen Campbell's first collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the definition of beauty. Weaving between whispered science and circus, she turns a cracked mirror on society and asks who gets to control the twisted tales hiding in the wings. Semifinalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 (Best Poetry category) Shortlisted for the poetry category of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2019
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Jen Campbell's first collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the definition of beauty. Weaving between whispered science and circus, she turns a cracked mirror on society and asks who gets to control the twisted tales hiding in the wings. Semifinalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 (Best Poetry category) Shortlisted for the poetry category of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2019
Title: The Girl Aquarium
Author: Jen Campbell
ISBN: 9781780374499
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Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2019-04-25
Number of Pages: 72
Weight: 0.1000 kg
Poetry of innocence and wonder. Poetry of darkness and deformation. The poems about girlhood experiences are daringly original. -- Daljit Nagra
These poems push and pull you, making strange bedfellows of butchery, freaks, and the inner lives of girls. Her roller-coaster of vivid images threaten to tear the paper. -- Melissa Lee-Houghton
I am impressed by the boldness, close to wildness, of Jen Campbell's imagination. As well as being fascinated, I take her very seriously. -- Christopher Reid
This blistering poetry collection explores showmanship, the so-called freak industry, fairytales and spectacle - and, in fact, it doesn't so much unpick these things as smash them to pieces and make them new... I love so much about it: how it kicks against tropes of disfigurement, how science jostles against fantastical circus, how it explores the way in which girls' bodies can be sites of both self-discovery and exploitation. It is defiant, bold, brilliant. As the penultimate poem states, Smash this circus to the ground. -- Elizabeth Macneal * The Guardian (Top ten books about circuses and spectacle - No 2: The Girl Aquarium) *
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