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PUBLISHER: Stewed Rhubarb

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781910416143

RRP: £5.99

PAGES: 36

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 2, 2020

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Anastasia, Look in the Mirror

Carly Brown

This pamphlet from Scottish Slam Poetry champion Carly Brown explores acts of looking out of and in to oneself. The heroine of an erotic novel stares at her own reflection and doesn’t recognise herself. Scottish painters look for inspiration in fin-de-siècle Paris, and a girl in 17th-century America goes looking for trouble and inadvertently kicks off the Salem Witch Trials.

It begins with looking in the mirror.

In these lyrical and witty poems, Carly Brown deftly mixes personal histories, introspection and political truths, bringing new, surprising and necessary images into sharp focus.

Carly Brown

Carly Brown is a writer and academic originally from Austin, Texas and now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the author of a bestselling children’s picture book, I Love St Andrews, and a debut poetry pamphlet, Grown Up Poetry Needs to Leave Me Alone. Known for her lively and witty spoken word poetry, Carly has performed at Glastonbury Festival, StAnza Poetry Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. She holds an MLitt with Distinction and a Doctorate of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow, and she is currently working on a historical fiction novel.

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