Full Description
Jen Campbell's first collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the definition of beauty. Weaving between whispered science and circus, she turns a cracked mirror on society and asks who gets to control the twisted tales hiding in the wings.
Semifinalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 (Best Poetry category)
Shortlisted for the poetry category of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2019
Contents
I
10 Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
11 #1
12 Girl Lunar
13 The Exorcism of the North Sea
14 Memories of Your Sister in a Full Body Wetsuit
16 Appendix
17 Movement
18 The Girl Aquarium
20 Half-full
21 Etymology
22 What he did can be found in Genesis
23 Luminiferous Aether
24 I wish to tell you body parts
27 The Magician's Daughter
28 The Chicken, the Egg and My Sister
29 The Patron Saints of Animals
II
32 Hero
33 Miss Eliza's Skeleton Factory
34 The Doll Hospital
36 The Bear
37 The Angel of the North
38 Swimmin
39 Birdlasses
40 Netted
42 Merlasses
43 Small Infinities
45 A Song of Herself
46 Angel Metal
47 On Crucifixion
48 The Art of Saving Other People
49 Orange Brain. Flowered Brain.
III
52 Hello, Dark
54 Butterfly Dresses at the Westminster Aquarium (1880)
55 What the Bearded Lady Told Me
56 I Heard She Had a Strawberry Heart
57 The Glow-worm Chasers
58 Kitchen
59 How to Weigh Nothing
60 In Fields She Wasn't Scarin Crows
61 On Display at the Hunterian Museum
62 The Woman's Private Looking-glass
64 The Day We Ran Away from the Circus
71 Biographical note
