sum of her PARTS

 

“Laura Besley’s tiny, enormous, sharp, dark, witty, surreal, moving, brave, joyous hybrid pieces will slip and slice into your heart, your mind, your softest parts and leave you feeling as if you have been deliciously dissected, seen, heard and put back together. Here is pain, here is insight, here is redemption.”
Tania Hershman

“Laura Besley's sum of her PARTS is satisfying and jarring. I love the sparsity of her language and her ability to bring so much to the page. Her words are surprising, absurd at times, but also full of the contradictory feelings many women have on a day-to-day basis. It's easy to see parts of you in these pages; it's both beautiful and unnerving.”
Nikki Dudley

Sum of her PARTS is very tiny and very fierce.

ISBN: 978-1-7394122-8-9               

36 pages

R.R.P. £7.50

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unrequited

Last month, I was in love with the security guard at Sainsbury’s; the month before, the butcher. Now, every Thursday, when the dustbin man waves, I imagine him emptying himself inside me. My lips pulsate, long for the sweet ache of poison-apple kisses. I wave back, mouth cold and colour-drained. 

REVIEWS

"In sum of her PARTS, Laura Besley provides us with a beautiful series of briefly illuminated windows - vignettes that offer glimpses into the moments of intimacy that make up a life. [...]

"In just thirty-four pages, Besley draws us into a network of bodies, thoughts, and conversations, always, as flash necessitates, with scant context. Yet the brief nature of each piece illuminates just how interconnected we all are, each jagged edge implicating a matching edge that may yet lie beside it. The sum of the collection's parts is a moving and sharply observed portrayal of the complexities of embodied life, where one must place gentle intimacies right alongside painful metamorphosis and absurd possibilities." 

Nina Walker, Everybody's Reviewing, full review here