Thu 28 Nov 19:30pm
Camellia Stafford and Amy Key, in association with Salt Publishing, would be delighted if you could join them to celebrate the launch of their debut collections…
Letters to the Sky by Camellia Stafford
“Camellia Stafford has the gift of making humility sound like boldness, the perverse demure and the decorative, steely. In its evocation of a muse whose charms Ovid would have coveted, there is the sense of something very highly distilled, just and even sacred. In Letters to the Sky the reader will find poem after poem of remarkable maturity, tenderness and depth – and to boot – knee-trembling pleasure.” Annie Freud
“Letters to the Sky is a dressing-up box of nostalgic delights, a sensual exploration of friendship, romance and sweet melancholia with heart-shaped sunglasses on.” Emily Berry
Plus…
Luxe by Amy Key
“If we are living in the material world, I want Amy Key to be my material girl. She makes her pleats and flounces move; she crowds the surface with color and texture right where it needs to be to draw the reader in like a bee to the velvet bell of the foxglove; or like the silverscreen beauty who eats bonbons from a satin box, she wills our gaze to take it all in and to crave more. These poems are worn on the body, and like all great ensembles, they show just enough; they are hot and memorable” D. A. Powell
“This delicious selection is a chocolate-box assortment of the work of one of my favourite poets writing today. Her delicate, dextrous writing belies the raw truths she tells. There are many centres to her confections that only reveal themselves when you take a bite. In her words ‘Poem with peep toes…Poem to conceal some feelings in…Poem to avalanche in your heart’. I love Amy Key.” Lauren Laverne