summary of poems

Eat Me

a woman is fed to excess by her partner, exploring themes of power and desire, before using her own body to overpower and kill him

An Easy Passage

An observer watches a teenage girl climbing into her house through a window symbolising fragile transitions to adulthood

The Lammas Hireling

A farmer hires a young man during lammas hireling, he then kills him (as he turns into a hare), and confesses to a priest, blurring lines of guilt and reality

To My 9-Year-Old Self

a letter to the speakers younger self, questioning whether the old and young are separate or if the letter is a chance to reconcile themselves

The Gun

explores how the arrival of a gun in a household awakens primal violence and power, disrupting domestic harmony

Chainsaw Versus The Pampas Grass

expires violent conflict between masculine aggression and feminine resilience through the destructive power of a chainsaw and nature

The Deliverer

Highlights difference in cultures and how this represents women, with a moral numbness in Kerala contrasting tradition is USA

Giuseppe

A mermaid’s execution during wartime exposes the loss of morals in WW2 and how guilt/ denial wrongly shapes memory

Ode On A Grayson Perry Urn

Shows art can preserve the real, social issues of modern Britain, not just ideal beauty, and Perry’s urn, at first criticised, eventually gives a voice to ordinary, ignored people