V. Press is very very delighted to launch Jacqui Rowe's debut poetry collection, Blink.
“Jacqui Rowe’sBlink shares extraordinary visions
of personhood and place, giving voice to the many voiceless figures
in her finely tuned ekphrasis and emotive allegorical poems inspired by
the likes of Apollinaire, Verlaine, and Lorca. Combined with plaintive
elegies for both loved ones and her heartland, this is
syntactically refreshing poetry that serves to move and inspire.” Robert Harper
“Sometimes a poetry collection won’t let you
put it down. This is one such collection. In Blink, Jacqui Rowe has
transcended the mere act of description, lifting the poems from the page with a
lyrical palette knife, painting each scene with an intelligent, witty and
moving style. This is how to write poetry. I will return to these poems again
and again.” Wendy Pratt
Blink is very very vibrant and mercurial.
A sample poem from the collection may be enjoyed below.
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Life in a Day
Our day was daffodils. I opened my
eyes
in equinoctial dawn, shaped by winds
and cloud, saw buds crack
that would be fruit for our
descendants.
No gloom until an evening star
told me I was ageing.
Night born, sun
starved, he was forged
in darkness, swaddled himself
in blindness to sleep, sometimes
woke
frozen in memories of the sickle
moon.
Yellow afternoon we met and wed,
he showed me chronicles of the
asparagus
years, epochs of oysters, powdery
engravings of ancient snow
and something he called roses.
