Monthly Archives: December 2011

CARIBOU

Bad Press (so liberated from the imperatives of purposive activity it’s unreal)

IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
* *  n e w ! * *

CARIBOU, by Amy De’Ath

A cerebrally serpentine collection of love poems re-working the lyric into a silken girder that will dizzy you with echoes of itself ALL AFTERNOON: in short, YES.

Caribou whizzes its readers from the ‘Fast Eddy’ of East London to the ‘Vertigo Valley’ of West Canada. “Now I am conducive to everything” writes Amy De’Ath and she means it, through her wonderfully sassy lyric ‘I’ that negotiates the rapids and gulps at the cliff edge with never a flicker of introspective self-importance. These poems are fleet-footed and fancy-free. They love to dance but they know the depths they skip across, the brow that beetles, the heart that almost disintegrates. So they are an example to us.

John Wilkinson

Accelerates from fast break scatter into pocketa pocketa: a love careen. “This thing-ting, thinking! … this out-of-sync wonkybeat,” this poetry knows its game too well not to bash the balls off the table. Go on, De’Ath, “boom brighter than the moon.”

Cathy Wagner

£5 / $9 at http://badpress.infinology.net/ : please hit the first DONATE button and send us £5 if you are in the UK or EU / hit the 2nd one and send us $9 if you are in the US or Canada

everything is going to be okay

or shiny.

Listen