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| Cover photo by Steven B. Smith |
Crisis Chronicles Press is very happy to announce the publication of Body Voices by Scottish poet Kevin Reid. Released 9 February 2013, Body Voices was shortlisted by the Saboteur Awards for best poetry pamphlet.
"In his collection, Body Voices,
Kevin Reid dissects the body using a variety of voices to expose and
explore how it is at once connected to its own past and to the external
world, how each separate voice depicts both functionality and
experience. Reid’s poems appear personal yet each body part has its own
distinctive story ranging from childhood memories to social commentary,
from the organic to the cerebral. They are full of thoughtfulness,
presence and wit. They are full of the senses, the transitions our
bodies and lives experience, our ever dissolving yet expanding path from
birth to death. They are brave and clever and they will prompt you to
re-examine your own relationship with your body, your past and your
place in the world. This is a living collection of poetry and I
recommend you read it."
—Gillian Prew, poet, author of In the Broken Things and The Idea of Wings
—Gillian Prew, poet, author of In the Broken Things and The Idea of Wings
"Kevin Reid’s Body Voices is an inventive, whimsical look at the body poetic. This series of candid and wry reflections offers a delightfully fresh perspective on learning to feel comfortable in the skin we are in. These pages reveal a weary, scarred, weathered and absolutely real body examined part by part and systematically stripped of any artifice or pretense: the poet stands before us naked and unashamed, imparting courage and wisdom in the process. Body Voices is unflinching, artful, guileless, and eminently worth reading."
—Rich Follett, poet, author of Responsorials and Silence, Inhabited: Poetic Reflections on Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse
Body Voices is 34 pages, 8.5 x 5.5", hand assembled and saddle staple bound, with a white and textured navy card stock cover.
This chapbook is currently sold out and out of print.
Reviews:
Click here to read David McLean's review of Body Voices at Clockwise Cat.
Click here to read Aads de Gids' review of Body Voices at Crow Reviews.
Click here to read John Field's review of Body Voices at poor rude lines.
Click here to read Christine Murray's review of Body Voices.
Click here to read Dianne Borsenik's review of Body Voices.
Click here to read Aads de Gids' review of Body Voices at Crow Reviews.
Click here to read John Field's review of Body Voices at poor rude lines.
Click here to read Christine Murray's review of Body Voices.
Click here to read Dianne Borsenik's review of Body Voices.
Poems:
Click here to hear Kevin Reid read "Mouth" from Body Voices.
Click here to read "Ears" from Body Voices in the Crisis Chronicles cyber litmag.
Bio (as of 2013, from the chapbook):
Kevin Reid
lives and works as a librarian in Angus, Scotland. He studied English
Literature at the University of Dundee. Back in the 90s he spent some
time living in a tipi community in the southern Spanish mountains, which
led to visionary encounters in peyote ceremonies. After a brief spell
of teacher training he chose to study librarianship. He has a key role
in organising Scotland’s longest running teenage book award. His poetry
has appeared in various publications, such as, Pushing Out the Boat, Scottish Poetry Review, heavy bear, The Recusant, and Counterexample Poetics. Body Voices is his first published chapbook.
