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Winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize
In her award-winning debut collection Kaycee Hill frankly explores coming of age as a woman - and the intricacies of connection and memory - against an urban-pastoral landscape.
Raging with vivid, smoky lyricism and full-blooded imagery, Kaycee Hill's poems are both a beginning and a continuation. Reflecting on her life and those in it, as well as first-times, underground scenes and the female body, she looks towards what is unflinchingly personal, and also outwards: towards family and strangers, nature and place, and a world that shapeshifts before us.
Hot Sauce is a searing first collection that captures the visceral vulnerabilities of navigating life on the cusp.
Contents
FOR YOU (FOR YOU)
11 Muse
12 A Caged Thing Freed
13 What Love Looks Like
14 Naturalist
15 Kitchen
16 Shapeshift
18 The Collector
19 Dreams of Home
20 Ghost
21 For the Hive
22 Scuffing
24 The Gift
25 Last shift at St Wins
MY GEOGRAPHIES
29 Polystyrene Cup
30 A SIDE
32 B SIDE
33 Elegy for Buster
34 Night Shift
35 In the queue at Motion
36 At the train station a pigeon
37 Day Visit at HMP Erlestoke
38 Blessed
40 Sleep Paralysis
41 Leaving St. Ives
42 A poem
43 Seal Island, St Ives
44 Oshun
45 Self Care
HAS IT COME TO THIS?
48 Flying Ants
49 Fresh Set
50 A Woman on Shirley High Street
51 On Grief
52 Urban Kites
53 The Marlands, Midday
54 Hot Sauce
55 Bully
56 To Get Inside
57 Vignettes about the New Forest
58 Little Deaths
60 Pendulum
62 Spring Begins in Leigh Woods
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE LIGHT I FEEL THE SUN
64 Leo Season
65 Core Memories in Málaga
66 Strip Tease
67 Recurring Dream
68 Remember
69 Lauryn Hill at Boomtown
70 Come Along with Me
72 Hooked
73 Dad, Eighteen
74 Hallowed
75 Bedroom Witch
76 A Memory
77 Roots
78 Free Party
79 Makeshift
