Fantastic Voyage
Amanda Dalton
(Author)
Description
In this tender and wryly humorous poetry collection, a child travels down her own oesophagus, a woman joins a search party to look for herself, one grief-stricken soul descends into a watery underworld whilst another experiences love as demonic possession….
In Fantastic Voyage, Amanda Dalton takes us on journeys into our hidden and ghostly selves, our insides and our ‘other’, exploring the myriad ways in which the human body gives voice to unspeakable truths. These poems put us in and alongside bodies that are ill, out of control and inhabited - our dark innards as harbingers of secrets and fears, the gut as fortune-teller and home to ghosts.
Taking inspiration from sources as disparate as human anatomy and classic 1960s science fiction, this collection charts a deeply personal voyage through grief and loss.
Product Details
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books |
| Publish Date | May 23, 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Digital download and online |
| EAN/UPC | 9781780377124 |
About the Author
Reviews
'Here is a magnificent poem of poems: a surging, truth-bound voyage that offers no easy purpose, acceptance, or ending.’ – David Morley on the pamphlet of Notes on Water, in The Poetry Review (Autumn 2022)
'Dark, funny, wise, terrifying. She is searingly matter-of-fact about the most painful recesses of the human heart… She dances round every corner with a grace that many more seasoned writers would die for’ – Jo Shapcott
‘Dalton looks in the face of despair and tells its story with unnerving calm’ – Siân Hughes, TES
‘She seeks out the fractured minds and lives that live in darkness and reconstructs them with tenderness and skill’ – Tracey Herd, Stand
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