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PAMPHLET
Desire Lines
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Jessica Mookherjee
£9.99
£14.00
RRP £12.00
ISBN 978-1-915079-91-6
Jessica Mookherjee’s Desire Lines is a deeply thrilling joyride into a glamorous/anti-glamorous world of sex, drugs and stolen books. Mookherjee crafts, largely through prose-poetry, a love letter to her golden years in eighties and nineties London. The poetry erupts into choppy river-washed rhythm with tales so urgent and visceral, life simply sings from the pages, wrapped up in gin, leather jackets and cheap nail polish.
PRAISE FOR DESIRE LINES
Desire Lines is a night maraud through the 80s/90s London streets. This is a scary and sultry London where men are out for what they can get and women carry knives in their eyes. A reminder that seediness is never far beneath the glitz. Mookherjee’s London is peopled with characters that are desperate and convincing. This is a collection that is loaded with fresh and exciting language. I was riveted from start to…
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jessica Mookherjee is the author of three pamphlets and three full collections of poetry. Tigress ( Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for best second collection in the Ledbury Munthe Prize. She has had poems highly commended in the Forward Prize twice (in 2017 & 2021). She is co-editor of Against the Grain Press.
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