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Amanda White's second collection, Appearing Soon, evokes a filmic atmosphere in which expectation and desire play out within often insecure settings. She conjures up scenes in which characters are preoccupied with what might happen next; waiting, watching and looking for meaning. There is a tension and a convergence between the real and the imagined world. Here are story-moments, abstracts, stills, episodes, walk-on parts, speaking parts, interludes, sound-tracks and notes in the margin where happiness and disappointment contend.
If, like me, you're looking for poetry that challenges poetic form, understands the continuum from poetry to prose and the subtle dynamics of human relationships, is both accessible and intelligent, laced with a mordant black humour and scores 10 out of 10 in the hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck test; buy this book.
Patience Agbabi, Mslexia
This poet possesses the triple "S": scope, skill, style.
Abi-Hughes Edwards, Poetry Editor, The New Writer
This first collection makes the blood flow fast. It is meaty, muscular with imaginative scope, a good sense of humour and touches of tenderness ...
These poems are sure-footed but can give a feeling of a liberating anarchy ... She's here to stay.
Mo Watson, Other Poetry
The poems sparkle with invention. Every one offers examples of exciting language and each one yields more on rereading ... There isn't a dull poem in this confident, memorable first collection.
Frances Nagle, Envoi 124
Appearing Soon costs £7.00 and was published in 2005.
ISBN: 978-1-873226-71-1
Photo: Andrew Gillman
Amanda White was born in London in 1965. She studied English, Philosophy and Film Studies at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, and subsequently Creative Writing and Film Studies at Goldsmiths' College, London. Married with three children, she now lives in West Penwith in Cornwall and works in publishing.
She was a featured writer in Virago's The Nerve: The 1998 Book of Writing Women and her first collection, Stepping on the Cracks, was published by Flambard in 1999. As well as poetry she writes children's books — Rip and Rap (2002) and Sand Sister (2004), both from Barefoot Books — and contributes to travel guides.
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