Girl, Swooning
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swoon
/swu?n/verb1. faint, especially from extreme emotion. 'The girl swooned and had to lie down'2. be overcome with adoration, or other strong emotion. 'She was swooning over Him'Etymology traces to the Old English word 'geswogen', meaning 'overcome'On the eve of her wedding, a young woman wrestles with transitions: from adolescence to adulthood, from longing to holding, from womb to birth, from life to death, from darkness to enlightenment, from waking to dreaming, from love to grief.There is only one choice: death or change.In 2023 Imogen Wade won the National Poetry Prize with her poem 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City', gaining her a wide audience. Finally, we have her stunning debut collection, Girl, Swooning, in which Wade looks at womanhood, love, death and religious experience.Distinctive, beguiling and compelling from the start, Girl, Swooning marks the emergence of a thrilling new voice.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781472160393
- Author: Imogen Wade
- Pub date: 05.03.26
- RRP: $29.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Imogen Wade
Imogen was raised in Harlow, Essex. She studied English at the University of Exeter and Vassar College, where she wrote a dissertation on the paradoxical freedom of female anchorites. She later qualified as a person-centred therapist and now works in private practice. Her work has appeared in Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets, The Poetry Review, London Magazine, Amsterdam Quarterly, PN Review and perverse magazine, amongst others. She has been commended in the Foyles Young Poets of the Year Award, the Moth Poetry Prize, the Plough Poetry Prize and the Winchester Poetry Prize, amongst others. She won First Prize in the Ware Poets Open Competition and the E. H. P. Barnard Poetry Prize. Her work has been covered by The Guardian, BBC News, The Spectator, Private Eye and Poetry News, and she has spoken on BBC Radio Essex, BBC World Service and Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.