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Fantastic Voyage Amanda Dalton

Fantastic Voyage By Amanda Dalton

Fantastic Voyage by Amanda Dalton


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By turns wryly humorous, tender and heartbroken, Fantastic Voyage takes us on journeys into our hidden and ghostly selves, our insides and our other, exploring how the human body gives voice to unspeakable truths. The books's central long poem a meditation on water charts a deeply personal voyage through grief and loss.

Fantastic Voyage Summary

Fantastic Voyage by Amanda Dalton

A child travels down her own oesophagus, a woman joins a search party to look for herself, one grief-stricken soul descends into a watery underworld whilst another experiences love as demonic possession. By turns wryly humorous, tender and heartbroken, Fantastic Voyage takes us on journeys into our hidden and ghostly selves, our insides and our other, exploring the myriad ways in which the human body gives voice to unspeakable truths. These poems put us in and alongside bodies that are ill, out of control and inhabited - our dark innards as harbingers of secrets and fears, the gut as fortune-teller and home to ghosts. The book's central long poem a meditation on water charts a deeply personal voyage through grief and loss. Two contrasting voices attempt to navigate a devastated world as both a corporeal and visceral experience, one grounded, the other hallucinatory. In other dreamlike experiences, the poems glimpse absent bodies as apparitions, doppelgangers and hauntings, and our visible selves as beings we cannot always recognise.

Fantastic Voyage Reviews

Here is a magnificent poem of poems: a surging, truth-bound voyage that offers no easy purpose, acceptance, or ending. -- David Morley * The Poetry Review, on the pamphlet of Notes on Water (now included in Fantastic Voyage) *
Dark, funny, wise, terrifying. She is searingly matter-of-fact about the most painful recesses of the human heart She dances round every corner with a grace that many more seasoned writers would die for. -- Jo Shapcott
Dalton looks in the face of despair and tells its story with unnerving calm. -- Sian Hughes * TES *

About Amanda Dalton

Amanda Dalton is a poet and playwright. Her first book-length collection, How to Disappear (Bloodaxe Books 1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and she was chosen as a Next Generation Poet in 2004. Her second collection, Stray, was published by Bloodaxe in 2012. In 2021 Arc published her experimental chapbook, 30 Poems in 30 Days and, in 2022, Smith|Doorstop published a pamphlet of two long poems, Notes on Water. A version of Notes on Water was re-created for two voices and soundscape for BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears. Her third full-length collection, Fantastic Voyage (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), also includes Notes on the Water. Amanda writes extensively for BBC Radio 4 and 3 including original drama, poetry-dramas, classic adaptations, re-imaginings of film, and lyric essays. Her theatre writing includes text for outdoor and site-specific performance, and drama for young people including commissions with Manchesters Royal Exchange, Sheffield Theatres and Keswicks Theatre By The Lake. Freelance since 2017, much of her career has been focused on teaching, mentoring and the curation and artistic leadership of innovative cross art-form projects, often in collaboration with other artists and communities. She lives in Hebden Bridge.

Table of Contents

9 Fantastic Voyage 10 Belly 10 Takotsubo 10 Gut 10 A Ghost Story 11 Look Inside! 12 When Andrea was 7 13 Auntie Irene says 14 One day I watch 15 Andreas father 16 One day I ask 17 Mum says Nancy Gardiner 18 Janet Bradley says 19 One day I go for a colonoscopy 20 Peter B says 21 Aged 9, Andrea doesnt know 22 One day, I was sawn in half 23 Notes on Water 39 Haunts and Apparitions 41 Nights I Squat 42 Magic 44 December 1979 45 Three Hauntings 45 1 Pelican 46 2 Girl in White with Trees 47 3 Man Dressed as Bat 48 Missing 49 The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary 51 like a tree 53 The Possibility of Fog 54 Ten Signs of Possession 54 1 Superhuman Strength 55 2 Knowledge of Previously Unknown Languages or Speaking in Tongues (glossolalia). 56 3 Unnatural Body Movements 57 4 Appearance of Wounds that Vanish as Quickly as They Appear 58 5 Paranormal Capabilities 59 6 Living Outside the Rules of Society 60 7 Being Persistently Ill, Falling into Heavy Sleep and Vomiting Strange Objects 61 8 Being Troubled by Spirits 62 9 Being Uncomfortable, Ugly and Violent 63 10 Making Sounds and Movements Like an Animal 64 Aftermath 67 Untitled 68 Fantastic Voyage 70 Notes 71 Acknowledgements

Additional information

NGR9781780377117
9781780377117
1780377118
Fantastic Voyage by Amanda Dalton
New
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
2024-05-23
72
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