Poetry
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In her debut pamphlet North by Northnorth, Elvire Roberts goes off-compass to find the vanishing point towards True North.
She treads her way through queerness in all its meanings: eccentric, Queer, questionable, unwell and downright weird. Her poems ask how a person can bear to be in this world and still find true expression of themselves in their complex flux of identities. There is guidance from Daoism and Buddhism, but above all from the natural world, as questions shapeshift to emerge as insects, mammals, cephalopods, birds. At its heart, North by Northnorth asks how the human animal can move from surviving to thriving. It is published by Five Leaves Press and available via Five Leaves or any bookshop. See here for reviews. |
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Elvire writes from a physiological reimagining of emotion, often through the animal, vegetable and mineral. Her poems have appeared in a range of publications including 14 Magazine, Dark Mountain, Envoi, Finished Creatures, Magma, Reliquiae, The Rialto, Strix, Tentacular and the Candlestick Press anthology Ten Poems About Getting Older.
She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University in 2016, going on to be mentored by Professor Harriet Tarlo as part of Writing East Midlands mentoring scheme in 2018. She performs many of her poems from memory to allow words to find a different life off the page. |
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Beginning in February 2020 and throughout the pandemic, Elvire and Rachel Goodman worked together to write an entirely co-created poetry book called Knee to Knee. It is available to order direct from Dialect Press or any bookshop.
They question the ways in which women have been written over a lifetime, asking - are they fit for purpose? They rip up the rule book, ditching versions of self that have pinned them to the page. What emerges is a witty, raw, sometimes heart-wrenching invitation to inhabit this world in a new language. See here for reviews. |
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EVENTS
Reading at: Gloucester Poetry Festival 2024, Sat 12th October 2024 13:00 - Panel and Readings on Collaboration The Folk of Gloucester, GL1 2PG Launch of Apocalyptic Landscape anthology Wed 23rd October 2024, 18:30 (BST) Central Library, Leeds LS1 3AB |
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
'Living the Dream' in Apocalyptic Landscape, ed. Steve Ely, pub. Valley Press in October 2024, available for pre-order. |
