Homesickness and Exile: Poems about Longing and Belonging
By Rachel Piercey and Emma Dai'an Wright
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Emma Dai'an Wright
Emma Dai'an Wright is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press with the support of the Prince's Trust. She has since published over 500 writers across more than 130 books, including poetry anthologies for adults and children, short stories, and translations. She lives in Birmingham.
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Homesickness and Exile - Rachel Piercey
Homesickness and Exile
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
With poems from Ivy Alvarez, Zeina Hashem Beck, Alex Bell, Carole Bromley, Mary Buchinger, George David Clark, James Coghill, Ellie Danak, Cath Drake, Frank Dullaghan, John Froy, Charlotte Higgins, Holly Hopkins, Elizabeth Horne, Anja Konig, Eve Lacey, Gill Learner, Rachel Long, Marissa Mazek, John McCullough, Cheryl Moskowitz, Selina Nwulu, Richard O’Brien, Lisa Ortiz, Rachel Piercey, Stephen Sexton, Vili Skarlopoulou and James Trevelyan.
logo.pngA Guide to Using This Ebook
When I started the Emma Press, I wanted to create the kinds of books which people wanted to carry with them, to read on busy commutes and on holiday. Homesickness and Exile is especially appropriate for this, so thank you for buying this ebook.
The difficulty of formatting poetry ebooks
Some of the poems in this book have experimental layouts, with multiple levels of indentation and gaps between words on lines. This is difficult to recreate in an ebook, because the ebook can be read on so many different devices which each treat formatting slightly differently.
My solution
I want to create reflowable ebooks instead of fixed-format ebooks, which only really work on large tablet devices like iPads. So, to make this reflowable ebook work, I’ve done my best with the formatting on difficult poems but also included a screencap of how the poem looks on the printed page. This means that you can still adjust the size of the text, but you can also see how the poet intended the poem to be read.
— Emma Wright, 21/9/14
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2014
by the Emma Press Ltd
Poems copyright © individual copyright holders 2014
Selection copyright © Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright 2014
Illustrations and introduction copyright © Emma Wright 2014
All rights reserved.
The right of Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
to be identified as the editors of this work
has been asserted by them in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988.
eISBN 978-1-910139-10-3
Print ISBN 978-1-910139-02-8
A CIP catalogue record of this book
is available from the British Library.
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Contents
A Guide to Using this Ebook
Copyright
Preface, by Emma Wright
Light on the Galactic Tide, by Anja Konig
Dundalk, by Frank Dullaghan
Homecoming, by Selina Nwulu
Yellow Sea Night, by James Trevelyan
Emigrant, by Carole Bromley
Foreign, by Mary Buchinger
Ithaca, NY, by Anja Konig
Prodigalia, by George David Clark
One Morning, Borås, by James Coghill
Paris, Texas, by Alex Bell
Coming down, by Elizabeth Horne
Mzungu, by Cheryl Moskowitz
Away, by Carole Bromley
Exile, by Charlotte Higgins
Women of Corinth, by Eve Lacey
Aunty, by Rachel Long
Hiding from a Mouse, by Holly Hopkins
On Rosebery Avenue, by Rachel Piercey
Coming Home, by Ellie Danak
The Town, by Alex Bell
Ariel, by Charlotte Higgins
What Greta Garbo Offered, by Ivy Alvarez
The Restaurant at One Thousand Feet, by John McCullough
Winged Carrots, by Zeina Hashem Beck
The boy travels, by Elizabeth Horne
The Terminal Building, by Carole Bromley
Leaving Perth, October 2012, by Cath Drake
Samovar, by Marissa Mazek
Interview Conducted through the Man-Eater’s Throat, by George David Clark
Forgetting How to Swim, by Richard O’Brien
In a local café, by Vili Skarlopoulou
Skype, by Stephen Sexton
England, where did you go?, by Holly Hopkins
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