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16.11.2020: Guardian Poem of the Week - Rosie Garland

Thrilled that 'Now that you are not-you' is Guardian Poem of the Week!

"A very modern, secular kind of elegy reflects on death with a surprising lightness" - Carol Rumens

"This week’s poem is from What Girls Do in the Dark, the latest collection by the multi-talented Rosie Garland. It stands alone, while extending the narrative of the short poem that immediately precedes it, Stargazer. The setting of Stargazer is a hospital bedside, where the dying patient’s visitor must navigate “the vertigo tilt / of old words like spread, outlook, time.” That poem ends with the metaphors that will be reconfigured in Now that you are not-you. “Doctors / murmur the names of new constellations / - astrocyte, hippocampus, glioblastoma – and calculate / the growth of nebulae; this rising tide of cells that climbs / the Milky Way of the spine to flood your head with light.”

Read the whole article here...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/nov/16/poem-of-the-week-now-that-you-are-not-you-by-rosie-garland

Written on Monday, 16 November 2020 15:28
12.11.2020 - ‘What Girls Do in the Dark’ launch event – ONLINE

7.30pm GMT

Join us to celebrate the launch of What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland, with guests Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys
About this Event
Join Rosie Garland, plus guest writers Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys to celebrate the publication of Rosie's new poetry collection What Girls Do in the Dark.
Thursday 12th November 7.30pm (GMT)
This event will be streamed live & can be viewed now, through the Nine Arches Press YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Z7yq1Ey_U&feature=youtu.be

Written on Thursday, 05 November 2020 15:48
Cover reveal for 'What Girls Do In The Dark' (Nine Arches Press)

I thought it wasn't possible to feel any more thrilled about joining Nine Arches Press
- then I see the stunning cover of my new poetry collection, 'What Girls Do In The Dark'.
Out October 2020
https://www.ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/what-girls-do-in-the-dark.html

Written on Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:31
Tags: nine arches press nine arches what girls do in the dark poetry collection poetry rosie garland
April 2020 - The Night Brother, Must-Read Manchester

Manchester Confidential chooses The Night Brother as a must-read Manchester novel!

Dystopian classics to modern crime - Nine must-read Manchester novels

“Fantasy, romance, sci-fi, comedy…we’ve got a genre for everyone
There’s a very good reason Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature, as we highlighted before its bid to join the prestigious network in 2017. Innovative publishers, diverse bookshops and a lively events scene make it an unrivalled literary melting pot.

Rosie Garland’s The Night Brother is our historical highlight
Ever the entertainer, Rosie Garland sung in post-punk band The March Violets and now performs ‘twisted cabaret’ as Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen. But she’s also a literary maverick with an array of essays, short stories and poetry to her name (much of which she also reads at spoken words events citywide) and three acclaimed novels. Her latest, The Night Brother, navigates themes of gender and identity through two siblings in Victorian Manchester. Rich and Gothic, it’s a must for fans of Angela Carter.”

https://confidentials.com/manchester/dystopian-classics-to-modern-crime-nine-must-read-manchester-novels

Written on Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:18
April 2020 - The Night Brother - Best Northern Read

An unexpected & encouraging piece of news!
Northern Soul has selected 'The Night Brother' as a Best Northern Read

Desmond Bullen, Northern Soul writer
“In days that can seem desolate and uncertain, there’s a lot to be said for windows into a better world and, ultimately, joyfully, that is exactly the view that The Night Brother by Rosie Garland affords. Not that its window seat is cheaply achieved. Far from it.
Rooted with disbelief-suspending specificity in Manchester at the end of the 19th century, Garland’s novel blossoms compellingly from the exquisite simplicity of its central conceit, one which owes the tiniest debt to the 1971 horror film Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde. Edie and her brother Gnome are joined in a very particular symbiosis, so that their singular sibling rivalry threatens to be the undoing of both. Themes that could be leaden in other hands emerge from the premise with a beautiful lightness of touch, developing into a persuasive fable of inclusivity and self-acceptance. This is a book that sings a rainbow at its end.”

https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/books-best-northern-reads-part-one/

Written on Thursday, 09 April 2020 15:26
Tags: the night brother borough press northern soul northern soul review best northern read historical fiction rosie garland desmond bullen