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QuickFire, Slow Burning

By: Janette Ayachi

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Janette Ayachi’s second collection moves away from the personal and delves into the universal with poems often taking flight from the page to parachute into performance. Her hypnotic voice lifts from a keen observing stance to one that probes the chemical reactions in nature, and especially in the body. Fire is seen as an element; as something environmental, a natural disaster. But Ayachi also plays with fire as a fuel in relationships; a heat felt and subject to synergy within the cells and flesh, a cardiac pulse, a love that comes quickly and burns slowly, constantly rekindling hope for change, peace and renewal. There is a mystic undertow that exposes the materials, the lore of bones and anatomy, pilgrimages and prayers, superstitions and super galaxies that she explores with language. Lost landscapes and lost loves merge as she confronts loneliness at the same time as showing us new bloom is on the horizon - that nature will always will us another spark.

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Liverpool University Press

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ISBN 10

180207516X

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9781802075168

Hand Over Mouth Music

By: Janette Ayachi

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Hand Over Mouth Music

By: Janette Ayachi

Motherhood is an animal state...there is a glaze of sex over the whole collection somtimes explicit, sometimes merely the jouissance of women in each others company... Ayachi’s prosody is overall light-footed and agile.' Stephanie Sy-Quia, Poetry London

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