Bøger af Fran Lock

"Ms. Lock's poetry speaks primarily to the feminist in all of us, even if some are not listening yet." Fran Lock has been storming the London scene with her refreshing, gutsy poetry. Stunning, honest, stark, and somewhat unforgiving, Fran Lock's verse lingers in the mind and sheds new light on a modern woman's search for identity and meaning. "In a time where contemporary poetry is still seeped in traditionalism, Lock strides in and snaps open Flatrock's soul, breathes her life against paper and this is how it goes." Max Wallis Praise for Fran Lock "Fran Lock uses words as tools, or sometimes weapons, to aid her presonal journey of inner exploration: a brutal but strangely romantic journey that exults in the power of poetry to unlock imagery in minds and hearts. A fine addition to anyone's poetry collection." Joolz Denby "Fran Lock's poetry is electrifying." Paul Perry "Fran Lock is a talent to watch." Fiona Sampson "Ms. Lock's poetry speaks primarily to the feminist in all of us, even if some are not listening yet... Flatrock is a very impressive first book by any standard. Ms. Lock fits into the mainstream of British authors who use realism (sometimes with neo-romantic flourishes) and social comment and work them hammer and tongs to create an exciting visceral experience for the reader. Ms. Lock's wit is as sharp as her imagination, and this probably explains her success at the "open mike" readings that eventually precipitated the publication of this volume." - Steven M Critelli, Against Interpretation Grab the debut collection from one of the UK's most vibrant, feminist poets.

Lyric essays by Fran Lock on subject of the Feral in context of queer, Irish, Gypsy Romani Traveler, working class people and women.

White/ Other is a strange hybrid beast - part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti - a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working-class "other" within neo-liberal culture.

Contains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate ‿ political, environmental, economic ‿ engenders its own nervy music. These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar. It is a collection that abounds in loss, in a sense of being lost, and in the gnawing fear of losing, yet its speakers address us with urgency. This is language in the throes of fighting back.

The Mystic and The Pig Thief is, in part, an elegy. It is also a book about the pain of being imperfectly assimilated, a book about being torn between the culture you come from and the society you're obliged to live in; a book about being pulled both ways while belonging to neither camp.