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FAMILY NAME IBD

JENNY MITCHELL / ROY MCFARLANE / ZOE BRIGLEY
NINE PENS
10 / 2023
9781739151782
Inglés

Sinopsis

Family Name features three unique poets - Jenny Mitchell, Roy McFarlane, and Zoë Brigley - who consider the act of naming, alongside explorations of family, whether biologically linked or chosen. They also question how names are twisted and debased to dehumanise in domestic and historical settings. áMitchell conjures the experiences of mothers, grandmothers and foremothers who practise an inherent alchemy to recover power and autonomy, especially in relation to the body. She examines how identity may be stolen, but can also be hard-won. áMcFarlane returns to forebears dedicating poems to Chet Baker, Sylvia Plath, the men of the Ellesmere Canal Yard, and, in the moving âÇÖHaibun for The FieldsâÇÖ, to Ishmael Zechariah McFarlane ('my life father'). McFarlane also tackles language, place and conquest, as in âÇÖCall me by my nameâÇÖ where a hurricane refuses the Briticised monikers (Charlie, Gilbert, Dean) allotted it. áBrigleyâÇÖs poems explore Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797): her life, her family and the background that created this pioneering feminist. Wollstonecraft is so much more than suggested by Horace WalpoleâÇÖs callous naming of her as a 'hyena in petticoats'. áFamily Name offers a call to arms, a refusal to accept injustice and a determination to reclaim identity as a site of power.á