Author: Fagan, Jenni
Poetry by individual poets
Published on 15 March 2016 by Birlinn General (Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 176 pages, b/w line drawings throughout
148 x 204 x 17 | 300g
The Dead Queen of Bohemia is a journey through a life lived on the edge. With a poetic style influenced by Gertrude Stein and William Burroughs, this collection is woven with surrealistic imagery that is both unflinching and dislocating.
Fagan's poetry is raw and tough yet beautiful and tender and with themes of loss and recovery, hope and defiance, represents a clarion call from a self-taught poet who started writing at the age of seven and so far has not stopped. The Dead Queen of Bohemia documents the progression of a voice and a life written over the last twenty years. It opens with Jenni's most recent work and includes her previous two collections, both now out of print.