Turbulence in Small Spaces by Adele Evershed

$15.99

 

In her poem, “Maybe I Give a Damn” Evershed channels Langston Hughes and asks, “What does disappointment smell like? Is it the scent of another steak and kidney pie that oozes gravy like a bloody wound, that is pushed around your plate until it disintegrates into mush?” In one sentence the writer has us taste personal regret in a way that will linger with us long after we put the book down.  Her poems are miniature monuments to human longing, strength and frailty, which pull from her Welsh heritage and an understanding of the world at large.  She moves between fable and fact, lyricism and pop culture with the ease of a master. I’ll tell you what disappointment doesn’t smell like, Evershed’s imagination and command of language.

–Sharbari Ahmed, Author, screenwriter, playwright, educator, Dust Under Her Feet, The Ocean of Mrs Nagai, Raisins, Not Virgins

 

 

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Turbulence in Small Spaces

by Adele Evershed

$15.99, paper

979-8-88838-301-8

2023

Turbulence in Small Spaces is a collection written for and about women. The poems explore love, loss, heartbreak, healing, and getting older. Dealing with toxic relationships, violence against women, and family dynamics, they confront the expectations placed on women and examine the challenges that aging brings. Ultimately, these poems offer the hope that wherever you experience turbulencewhether it be in a supermarket, at home, or in your mental healthyou can grow, heal, and gain wisdom from having survived.

Adele Evershed is an educator and writer. She was born in Wales and has lived in Hong Kong and Singapore before settling in Connecticut with her family. Adele started writing in 2019 and since that time her poetry and prose have been published in over seventy online journals such as Every Day Fiction, Variety Pack, Grey Sparrow Journal, High Shelf Press, LEON Lit, Prose Online, and Shot Glass Journal. She has also had stories and poems published in several print anthologies, such as the award-winning 81 Words published by Victorina Press and A470, Poems for the Road published by Arachne Press. She has recently been nominated for The Pushcart Prize for poetry, shortlisted for the Staunch Prize for flash fiction, and her novella in flash, The History of Hand Thrown Walls, was shortlisted for the Reflex Press Novella Award. Adele’s first poetry chapbook, Turbulence in Small Spaces, will be published next year. Read more of her work at thelithag.com

Adele Evershed is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, writer, and educator. Turbulence in Small Places is her first collection of poetry. The poems, formatted in different styles, form a collection that deals with the themes of sorrow, mourning, hope, and ultimately the power of women to survive.

 

 

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