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Votive Mess
Nia Davies 
Votive Mess
Swansea University Author:
Nia Davies
Abstract
A collection of poetry by Nia Davies. In Votive Mess Nia Davies asks how time and desire move us errantly. Her second collection follows her startling debut All fours, emerging from an immersion in performance and ritual. The poems trace a path through the peaks and troughs of performance, bouncing...
| Published in: | Votive Mess |
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| ISBN: | 9781780377155 |
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Hexham
Bloodaxe Books
2024
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https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/votive-mess-1356 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67145 |
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A collection of poetry by Nia Davies. In Votive Mess Nia Davies asks how time and desire move us errantly. Her second collection follows her startling debut All fours, emerging from an immersion in performance and ritual. The poems trace a path through the peaks and troughs of performance, bouncing between enchantment and disenchantment. These works are studies in the altered states of travel, masks, comedy, learning and love. Nia Davies begins to learn a lost mother tongue, y iaith Gymraeg, and presents unfinished experiments in liminality. Votive Mess is a book of small rebellions against systems of exhaustion and alienation, embracing lingual brambles and shabby theatre to assemble fragments gleaned from the rubble of Babel. There are love letters drowsy and excessive as well as uncanny happenings on stage and in the woods. Votive Mess is composed out of a tangle of sex, leaf, stumbles on stage, damage, blackberries and dyslexia. There is a discharge of Awen, otherwise known as poesis. The navel of the dream is inside out. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |