Bloodlines

Author(s): Fable Goldsmith

Poetry

To watch Fable Goldsmith perform their poetry is to witness something miraculous conjure, break and heal before your eyes. Goldsmith's performative style is vibrant, revelatory and beguiling: their voice shatters around words, summons resilience, ensnares the audience with a ferocious tenderness. This is a poetics of queerness, parenthood, family and bravery unlike anything you've ever heard.And now? now you can read it, here, in this incredible chapbook. Trust me, nothing is lost in Goldsmith's words being transmuted on to the page. In fact, there is an extra space, there, yes, right there, in your chest: a space for your heart to break and shift and leap and heal. Yes, let yourself heal, here in the pages of Goldsmith's poems.In fact, let the alchemy of Fable's poetics transmute your heart, your healing, into something more precious: something akin to gold. Now, carry that preciousness as armour. See how your feet lift to greet the world with awe and courage, how your tongue learns to shape the names of unconditional love. This is how Fable carries their poems into the world, on to the stage, and here? on to these pages.Hyperbole aside, it has been an honour to mentor Goldsmith over the past two years. Their passion and dedication toward poetry is beyond admirable. To see them succeed has been a blessing. In the time we have known each other, Goldsmith has represented WA twice at the Australian Poetry Slam, won The XYZ Award for Innovation in Spoken Word, has been shortlisted for The Ros Spencer Poetry Prize and is now the author of this wondrous chapbook. As a mentor, all of this success fills my heart with pride. As a friend, I am inspired. Endlessly inspired. Fable Goldsmith's poetry is visceral, vital and important. They capture the heartache and triumph of family with such bravery, it will leave you enamoured and empowered. To put it simply, Goldsmith is one of the most important and engaging emerging poets in West Australia, if not the whole of Australia.Treasure these poems, for they each contain inexplicable treasure. -- Scott-Patrick Mitchell


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780646826172
  • : candy goldsmith
  • : September 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Fable Goldsmith
  • : Paperback