A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block  
Author(s): Jenni Fagan
Published by Birlinn
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ISBN: 9781788856805
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The new collection from one of Scotland’s most original voices.

Jenni Fagan converses with the poets of the past; through them, she communes with demons and explores a world that is continually at odds with itself.

The poet voyages, as ever, on the outskirts, calling out the nuances of class, of care, of misogyny and brutality. Yet even here, too, in her response, there is always love, humour, hope and defiance.

From one of Scotland’s most original voices, this collection places the poet’s life under the microscope. Each line brims with verve and wit and absolutely soars. It is, at once, heartbreaking and haunting, visceral and challenging and full of raw passion. These poems sing like only someone who has traversed the most arduous roads, pen in hand, can.
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The new collection from one of Scotland’s most original voices.

Jenni Fagan converses with the poets of the past; through them, she communes with demons and explores a world that is continually at odds with itself.

The poet voyages, as ever, on the outskirts, calling out the nuances of class, of care, of misogyny and brutality. Yet even here, too, in her response, there is always love, humour, hope and defiance.

From one of Scotland’s most original voices, this collection places the poet’s life under the microscope. Each line brims with verve and wit and absolutely soars. It is, at once, heartbreaking and haunting, visceral and challenging and full of raw passion. These poems sing like only someone who has traversed the most arduous roads, pen in hand, can.
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • My Heart
  • Peripatetic
  • Ootlin
  • There’s a Problem in the Arts
  • Ninety Seconds to Midnight
  • Last Orders
  • Memorial
  • Fanged
  • Orpheus
  • Who Are You to Say What It Is To Be Living?
  • Urchin
  • Pact
  • Reclamation (or) My Shaman is Better Than Your Shaman
  • The Butcher
  • They Come For Me
  • Sign
  • Don’t Read the Reports
  • Heroine
  • Orphan at the Table
  • Swan Song
  • Freak the Fuck Out for Christmas
  • Halo
  • Perdition
  • Swan
  • The Gift
  • Vengeful Saint
  • Rat
  • Civil Servant
  • Getting Rid of the Body
  • So Hurt by All of It, I Thought Death Might Be Nice
  • Fuck That
  • Queer Dating
  • Window
  • I Don’t Think
  • On Another One of My Worst Years
  • No Permission Slip Required
  • Benediction
  • Spinster
  • They Found Something in My Blood
  • Winter Solstice
  • Do What You Do
  • Things Said by XY Chromosomes
  • Polonium-210
  • Pre-Nuptial
  • Wild Winter Hag
  • Instead of Goodbye
  • Busy
  • I Forgot About Love
  • Ossification
  • Badger
  • Abstract Art
  • Clean Bones
  • Fuck it
  • Mental Control Laboratory
  • Struggling
  • Home
  • I Miss You Knowing Me and Being Able to Hold You
  • Homicidal Motivations
  • In Another Country
  • The Boquet
  • Let’s Bang on About the Moon
  • Luminary
  • Mortar
  • Before He Dies
  • The Taker
  • She Played the Trombone, You Know
  • Triffid
  • Dead at the Helm
  • Singing Nina Simone to the Echo
  • One Day
  • I’ve Made Houses Perfect
  • Hope
  • Thank You
  • Acknowledgements
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