How I Get Ready

Author(s): Ashleigh Young

POETRY

In her latest poetry collection How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book. An Ashleigh Young poem is a world: hospitable, strange, a little off kilter. The poems in How I Get Ready bristle with humour and curiosity; they are idiosyncratically observant and keenly empathetic. That empathy is extended to the reader – the poems confide and beguile, providing access not just to the speaker’s travails but also to those of lives remote in history: the compulsive disorder of a sensitive young man living in the early 20th Century, for example, or the emotional anguish of the late medieval mystic, Margery Kempe.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781776562367
  • : Victoria University Press
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : May 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ashleigh Young
  • : Paperback
  • : 96