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Are You Judging Me Yet? - Poetry and Everyday Sexism — Poetry and Everyday Sexism
Are You Judging Me Yet? - Poetry and Everyday Sexism — Poetry and Everyday Sexism
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad o 'draethodau telynegol' gan y bardd arobryn Kim Moore yn adlewyrchu ar ei thaith fel bardd o ferch a pherfformwraig gyhoeddus. Gan dynnu ar yr anogaeth a brofodd drwy'r mudiad #Metoo a chan ei phrofiadau personol, mae'n herio triniaeth o'r ferch a thybiaethau confensiynol diog, gan gynghori ar sut i oroesi stormydd ar twitter a dwyn newid i gymdeithas.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
In this collection of 'lyric essays', prize-winning poet Kim Moore negotiates being a woman poet and public performer. Encouraged by the #Metoo movement and drawing on her personal experiences, she challenges objectification and lazy conventional assumptions, and advises on surviving twitter storms and bringing about change. An important book whose time has come.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781726877
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781726877
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Are You Judging Me Yet? - Poetry and Everyday Sexism — Poetry and Everyday Sexism
- Sub Title
- Poetry and Everyday Sexism
- Awdur / Author
- Moore, Kim
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2023-03-17
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 206 pages
- Size
- 135 × 208 mm; depth 9 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Ysgrifau a Sgyrsiau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Essays and Talks (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Ysgrifau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Essays (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Kim Moore was born in Leicester and lives and works in Cumbria. Her first full length collection ‘The Art of Falling’ won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She also won a New Writing North Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012. Her second collection, ‘All the Men I Never Married’ has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize. A teacher and facilitator of poetry, she has been a judge for the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize. Kim Moore is also the founder and organiser of the Kendal Poetry Festival. She has a doctorate in Poetry and Everyday Sexism from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Are you Judging Me Yet? is Kim Moore’s third book under the Seren imprint. Her first poetry collection, The Art of Falling , won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and her second, All the Men I Never Married , won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. The theme of her second collection serves as a touchstone for this new and innovative volume in which she alternates between her poetic and critical writing. She stitches together a compelling narrative about poetry and the role of everyday sexism in the lives of women, with a voice that addresses both male and female readers. A striking feature of this book is its structure. Moore opens with ‘Desire Lines: Variations on an Introduction’, which describes her working process and contextualises the book in the creative-critical research for her PhD. Indeed, some of the prose sections are quite scholarly, with references to feminist and literary criticism, while other prose sections tell personal narratives in a deeply reflective way. The book is structured using a ‘choose your own adventure’ style based on the Fighting Fantasy role-playing gamebooks. This allows her to map multiple pathways through the material so that readers can experience the book in a nonlinear way following their own lines of interest. At the end of each sequence of poems and prose, Moore provides pointers to various options for the reader to follow. For example, at the end of one sequence, she advises: ‘If you are still unsure whether sexism exists, turn to ‘Sexism is a Slippery and Fluid Term’ on page 76. If you would like to read about wilfulness, turn to ‘An Electric Current: Poems of Wilfulness’ on page 129.’ I enjoyed this open-ended, reader-centred playful mode, although I found myself reverting back to linear reading style after a while. The pieces in this collection hold together well, whether read in a linear or nonlinear way. The language of the poems is fresh but not so experimental as to obscure the narrative. For example, Poem 9 in the section about relationality tells a story about seeing a man she had been involved with who now tells her he wants to find a younger girlfriend. The poem closes with Moore’s unspoken words in response: ‘I want to say do you ever wake up and worry about becoming a cliché but I don’t I can’t be bothered to keep being disappointed in you and the way your beautiful animal face turned out’ Moments such as these, when she has no voice to speak to the man, are often her most eloquent, speaking to herself and to readers. The gradual development of her insight into everyday sexism is turned inside out, putting her inner transformation on display in these poetic jewels. Women everywhere will recognise these experiences, and I hope that men will, too.
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