Feeling All the Kills by Helen Calcutt

Feeling All the Kills is a dazzling new collection that breaks the poet’s silence on what it means to experience and live in the wake of a violent assault and rape.

Calcutt weaves stunning musicality with raw, unhindered storytelling, as the poems both collectively, and in their individual power, explore the distinctly connected, yet fractured selves of ‘sexual being’, ‘mother’ and ‘abused person’.

Through the poems’ breathtaking and vital vocabulary Calcutt brings the physical, emotional, and sexual nuances of life to the foreground, with strength, subtlety and beauty, and courageously harnesses a sense of ownership over such a lasting trauma.

At the heart of this collection is a personal desire to navigate a way back to a sensual, whole-feeling self, to shamelessly ‘feel all’ — with authenticity and power.

Helen Calcutt is a leading artist and choreographer working with a specialism in text embodiment within theatre & movement. She is the author of three volumes of poetry and Artistic Director of dance-theatre company ‘Beyond Words‘.
Her writing has been published globally. ‘Somehow’ (Verve Poetry Press, 2020), was a PBS Winter Bulletin Pamphlet & Poetry School Book of the Year (2020). Anthology ‘Eighty-Four’ (Verve Press, 2019), created in aid of the suicide prevention charity C.A.L.M. was a Saboteur Award shortlist & a Poetry Wales Book of the Year, 2019. Her full-length collection ‘Feeling All the Kills’ was published by Pavilion Poetry, April 2024.

Feeling All the Kills
by Helen Calcutt (Author)
Pavilion Poetry
Publisher: ‎Liverpool University Press
28 April 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 84 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1802074724
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1802074727
£10.11

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