Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore
Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2024 A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024 A The Times Book of the Year 2024 'Trees crawling with babies, babies darting through the sky or buoyed by thermal vents, babies painted with false eyes' ('Fable') In Isabel Galleymore's second collection, the adorable other is not just an imagined future child, but also a tree frog, a weather-worn statue and often the speaker herself, who dreams of quitting adulthood and an endangered world. 'Mother Earth' is less an entity to be revered than a command to care-giving. Lyrics and syllabically-constrained fables examine the play and power involved in creating new life, whether biologically or via cartoonists' animation. Galleymore hones in on cuteness and its relationships to hyper-capitalism and environmental crisis to produce a deliberately queasy ecopoetics. Animal extinctions are likened to failed businesses and sainthood is granted to a dubious character named Michael Mouse. Studies of wild creatures join those of pets, pot plants and animal videos: here is a new nature - one shaped by the extremes of our contemporary desires.
'This is a vital new voice for our age of climate change denial' - Poetry Book Society
Isabel Galleymore's first collection, Significant Other, won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. She held the position of Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2022-23. She lectures at the University of Birmingham.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781800173880 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800173881 |
| Title | Baby Schema |
| Author | Isabel Galleymore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Prizes | Commended for A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024 |
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