Sakura by Myriam San Marco
Sakura is the debut collection from performance poet Myriam San Marco. It delves unapologetically into life, love and losses of a woman trying to grasp sense out of thin air. With stark and brutally gorgeous imagery, Sakura is a bruise to the heart for any reader.
'Myriam sometimes calls herself Word Maker, but it is her word-choosing that impresses me mostIn Sakura, Myriam's word-choices, sharply-focused as laser-pointers, are shone straight into the eyes of the dark beasts that gnaw away at the foundations of us and our relationships, threatening to turn the world wobbly. Her word-choices make reading this poetry an uncomfortable experience at times; an exhilarating and beautiful and sexy one at others. But always rewarding. This little book is the result of meeting the world head on in all it's ugly glory and finding a way to distill that experience; to turn it into potent shots that both burn and warm the heart in equal measure. It is a little book, yes, but it is also a great victory. Myriam has lived and loved and somehow survived and look! Here she is, stronger than ever and mouth blazing, holding Sakura aloft like a hard-won scalp. ' - Jonny Fluffypunk
Myriam San Marco is a poet, promoter, creative writing facilitator and the current Bournemouth Poet Laureate. She is the former host of 'Spread the Verb' bi-monthly spoken word showcase and the Platform monthly open mic and co-hosted the Chocolate Poetry Club London as their Poet in Residence for 2 years. She is the writer in residence for the Badbury Rings Rewind 2016 and 2017 Festival. She founded Wordmakers and Silence Breakers last year, a collection of wandering wordsmiths, vagabonds verbalisers and rhyming rebels to work as workshop facilitators, bards, fools and muses in local festivals and one off events. The Wordmakers will be hosting a bi-monthly spoken word night from May 17 at Chaplin's Cellar Bar. Abe Gibson described her performance as 'cutting to draw blood'. Her words have been published in Boscombe Revolution, The Interpreter's House, Poets’ Republic, Message in a Bottle, Oddity Magazine, Curly Mind and I am not a silent poet.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781911570417 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911570412 |
| Title | Sakura |
| Author | Myriam San Marco |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Burning Eye Books |
| Year published | 2018-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 100 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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