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Museum of Ice Cream Jenna Clake

Museum of Ice Cream By Jenna Clake

Museum of Ice Cream by Jenna Clake

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Museum of Ice Cream is Jenna Clake's second collection, following her debut Fortune Cookie (2017), winner of an Eric Gregory Award, shortlisted for a Somerset Maugham Award. An uncanny examination of objects, scenes and flavours, these poems explore how food can connect or divide, can feel isolating or terrifying, and what it mean to have a secret.

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Museum of Ice Cream by Jenna Clake

Jenna Clake's Museum of Ice Cream is part simulation, part internal monologue, part attempt to reach out. An uncanny examination of objects, scenes, and flavours, these poems explore how food can connect and divide, can feel isolating and terrifying: public and private jars of peanut butter, a tray of lemons, unfurling chocolate bar wrappers. In turning to television, childhood films, and social media accounts, her collection investigates how to reveal and conceal, what it means to have a secret, to be intimate, to navigate something that should be natural, but feels sickly, sour, and wrong. Museum of Ice Cream is Jenna Clake's second collection, following her debut Fortune Cookie (2017), winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the Melita Hume Poetry Prize, which was also shortlisted for a Somerset Maugham Award.

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The trajectory between Clake's debut collection and Museum of Ice Cream is logical but still beautifully unexpected: the linguistic precision and surreal swerves are stronger than ever, but something deepens and resonates as the voice transitions from instructive, to consoling, to lost, often within the same stanza. These are poems of such sadness and grace; fear transfigured by a powerful imagination into endlessly explorable terrains. Not so much to guide as to reach out to you in your own maze of confusion, wonder and dread; which is all I ever really ask of poetry. -- Luke Kennard

About Jenna Clake

Jenna Clake was born in Staffordshire in 1992. Her debut collection of poetry, Fortune Cookie, won the Melita Hume prize in 2016, and was published in 2017 by Eyewear. It received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2018, and was shortlisted for a Somerset Maugham Award in the same year. Her pamphlet of prose poems, CLAKE/ Interview for, was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2018, and was featured as a spring pamphlet in the Poetry Book Society Bulletin in 2019. She was shortlisted for the inaugural Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize, commended in the University of Hertfordshire Single Poem Prize, and placed second in the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2018. Her second full collection, Museum of Ice Cream, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2021. Jenna is writer in residence for ORCA, writing on cetacean conservation, marine mammals, and whale watching. Her poetry criticism has appeared in Poetry London, The Poetry School, The Compass and The Poetry Review. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham and lectures at Teesside University.

Table of Contents

11 Cloud Appreciation Society 12 I would die for you in the best way possible 13 Wooden doll, total being 14 Immersive experience of all the things I want for myself (that are bad for me) 16 Vixen 17 How much longer until I get this out? 18 I wanted Agent Cooper to save my life 20 Sponge cake, pound cake, gateau 21 there is no marine snow here, my friend 22 Self-portrait as the opening of a window on a hot morning 23 Organisational Skills for the Hungry 26 Milk, Strawberry, Sugar 27 The omission is meaningless 28 M's letters to tumblr 32 Like other women 33 I hid fish in my pockets and forgot about it for days 34 Siesta for Olivia 36 All our problems began with a woman eating 37 On feeling my eggshell heart break 38 Jen's Sweet Shop 40 i am driving for hours tonight; i didn't bring snacks 41 I could cry, yes, I could 42 It's no longer about us, it's got to be about me 44 Elegy for Balto from the Bottom of a Frozen Lake 46 Quayside of Dogs 47 Self-portrait as a pink dressing room 49 Bread, orange, aura 50 Oyster Delight 52 if you're near the park, come find me, i'm having a picnic 53 Still life of newspapers folded on a bistro set 54 Sunday roast on a dark wood table 56 I try to make sense of things by standing very close to windows 58 Tell me if you prefer your carrots as sticks or coins and I'll always remember 59 Garments I have dreamed of but will

Additional information

GOR013886583
9781780375458
178037545X
Museum of Ice Cream by Jenna Clake
Jenna Clake
Used - Like New
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
20210422
64
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