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Tishani Doshi reads and talks about ‘Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods’ and six other poems from GIRLS ARE COMING OUT THE WOODS, an unflinching collection of poems that weaves between topics from violence against women, to time and memory. Her third full collection in English is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and blends visceral power with artistic elegance, re-imagining form as it sifts through detail and emotion. After the title poem, she reads ‘Everyone Loves a Dead Girl’, ‘Contract’. ‘Ode to Patrick Swayze’, ‘Find the Poets’, ‘A Fable for the 21st Century’ and ‘Poem for a Dead Dog’. Neil Astley filmed her reading poems from the book before her reading with Pascale Petit at Ledbury Poetry Festival on 5 July 2018. GIRLS ARE COMING OUT THE WOODS was published in 2018 by Bloodaxe Books in the UK [bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/girls-are-coming-out-of-the-woods-1178], by Copper Canyon Press in the US and by HarperCollins in India. She reads her selection from her previous collection, EVERYTHING BEGINS ELSEWHERE, on vimeo.com/63460395
Tishani Doshi reads and talks about ‘Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods’ and six other poems from GIRLS ARE COMING OUT THE WOODS, an unflinching collection of poems that weaves between topics from violence against women, to time and memory. Her third full collection in English is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and blends visceral power with artistic elegance, re-imagining form as it sifts through detail and emotion. After the title poem, she reads ‘Everyone Loves a Dead Girl’, ‘Contract’. ‘Ode to Patrick Swayze’, ‘Find the Poets’, ‘A Fable for the 21st Century’ and ‘Poem for a Dead Dog’. Neil Astley filmed her reading poems from the book before her reading with Pascale Petit at Ledbury Poetry Festival on 5 July 2018. GIRLS ARE COMING OUT THE WOODS was published in 2018 by Bloodaxe Books in the UK [bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/girls-are-coming-out-of-the-woods-1178], by Copper Canyon Press in the US and by HarperCollins in India. She reads her selection from her previous collection, EVERYTHING BEGINS ELSEWHERE, on vimeo.com/63460395
