Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. A Map
Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly's first collection, considers words,
the power they impart, the power their absence withholds.
Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the
imagination to find ways round and ways through. `The idea of
fluency interests me - and whether we can ever claim fluency in any
language.' Her mother speaking Danish - which she cannot herself
understand - is familiar and yet alienating: how Danish can she
herself be when she cannot hear her mother's tongue with
understanding? Her own attempts with British Sign Language are
another challenge, a form of translation of sense in the absence of
sound. `I have to work hard to listen and this requires me to place
you to my right side, to watch your lips, to watch your hands, to
watch your gestures. How ca form not matter?' The poems touch on
these themes in various ways, not least in what they do with form.
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