Emily Barker NEWS! New poetry book (Sonogram) and is returning to the UK to tour!

 

I'm excited to share with you that my second pamphlet of poems is coming out! Find out more here.

Hello I hope you had good holiday times! Me and my post-surgery ankle spent some time in Bridgetown elevating before camping in a hut by a lake near Walpole amongst the Tingles and Karris. It wasn't scorching hot and apparently Australia won the cricket... I'm excited to share with you that my second pamphlet of poems will be out soon! Once again it's coming out via the awesome indie publisher that is Broken Sleep Books (my debut Where the Black Swans Swim also came out via BSB). It includes a poem that some of you will have heard me perform at gigs - That Time I was Aretha Franklin's Niece. You might even have a handwritten copy of the poem if you bought one at a show. I've named the collection Sonogram {Soundwriting} after one of my songs and because I feel it encapsulates the themes. PRE-ORDER HERE Aaron Kent - Broken Sleep Books editor - wrote the following: "Sonogram {soundwriting} by Emily Barker is a structurally inventive collection in which lyric, score, setlist, dream record and field note braid into a poetics of voice under pressure. "Written from the itineraries of touring and the aftermaths of fire, flood and political drift, these poems move between venues, coastlines and hospital rooms, tracing how sound carries memory, desire, and damage. Barker’s technique is musically alert and structurally restless, shifting from compressed list poems and documentary fragments to ekphrastic and refractive pieces that treat composition as a way of thinking through time, fertility, loss and the fragile persistence of hope. "Throughout, the book tests what it means to keep making songs in a world of unstable weather and unstable bodies, where rhythm becomes both witness and method." You can pre-order Sonogram {Soundwriting} now and pick up a copy of Where the Black Swans Swim too if you fancy. Both are available via my website. Best wishes and thank you - and happy new year! Emily x PS. I have a handful of UK shows coming up... 7 Mar - Little Rabbit Barn (house show) 14 Mar - TWYFORD, Swiss Cottage (sold out) 21 Mar - CHATHAM, LV21 (another show aboard a boat) All details here - see you there!

Em has written to her fans and tells us she has another book of poetry out and is coming back to the UK including Twyford no less which is up the road from me and yes I have ordered the poetry book too - her first was really fascinating I found.