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‘Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever, a gorgeous, sad box of delights about intimacy, bad bodies, sorrow,’ wrote Olivia Laing in the Guardian (Best Books of 2018). ‘Key is adept at linguistic surprises, charting women’s lives with a savage delicacy.’ Also writing in the Guardian (Best Summer Books 2018), Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry called it ‘playful, surreal and enchanting but also rooted in brutal emotional honesty. She is writer of a rare and strange magic.' Amy Key’s second book of poetry, Isn’t Forever, published by Bloodaxe in 2018, was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice, and followed her debut, Luxe (Salt, 2013).
Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her reading a selection of poems from Isn’t Forever at her home in Peckham, London, in February 2019. The poems she reads here are: ‘I do not need the sea to love me back’, ‘Delphine is on silent retreat’, ‘Oh you most beautiful inside of a vegetable!’, ‘The news reported she wore her body to the event’, ‘The garden’, ‘Palest Greens’, ‘I disowned my real pain and engaged with its subordinates’, ’Sensory notes on Music for 18 Musicians’, ‘How to be sexy’, ‘We were alone for the first time’ and ‘Lousy with unfuckedness, I dream’; followed by a short interview with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley. For more details please see: bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/isn-t-forever-1181
‘Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever, a gorgeous, sad box of delights about intimacy, bad bodies, sorrow,’ wrote Olivia Laing in the Guardian (Best Books of 2018). ‘Key is adept at linguistic surprises, charting women’s lives with a savage delicacy.’ Also writing in the Guardian (Best Summer Books 2018), Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry called it ‘playful, surreal and enchanting but also rooted in brutal emotional honesty. She is writer of a rare and strange magic.' Amy Key’s second book of poetry, Isn’t Forever, published by Bloodaxe in 2018, was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice, and followed her debut, Luxe (Salt, 2013).
Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her reading a selection of poems from Isn’t Forever at her home in Peckham, London, in February 2019. The poems she reads here are: ‘I do not need the sea to love me back’, ‘Delphine is on silent retreat’, ‘Oh you most beautiful inside of a vegetable!’, ‘The news reported she wore her body to the event’, ‘The garden’, ‘Palest Greens’, ‘I disowned my real pain and engaged with its subordinates’, ’Sensory notes on Music for 18 Musicians’, ‘How to be sexy’, ‘We were alone for the first time’ and ‘Lousy with unfuckedness, I dream’; followed by a short interview with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley. For more details please see: bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/isn-t-forever-1181
