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Collection of five poems published in literary journals

Campbell, Siobhan, ‘Weeding’ and ‘Lace’, in The Hopkins Review, eds John Irwin, Mary Jo Salter et al., 6:4 (New Series) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp134-136;

Campbell, Siobhan, ‘The longing of the bees’, ‘Drip Feed’, ‘Pastimes in Occupied Territory’ in The Poet’s Congeries, ed. John Hoppenthaler, 1:5 (May 2013), (Greenville: East Carolina University's Connotation Press, 2013).

As a group, these poems interrogate the use of art in difficult human situations. Issues of created ‘tellings’ and how to subvert norms of the told appear in ‘Lace’ and in ‘Weeding’ where stories of ‘the world seems right’ are undermined by a knowingness ‘filthy with possibility’. In work directed by a post-conflict moment, ‘Pastimes in Occupied Territory’ has a wholly contingent setting of re-naming, re-drawing and ‘acting’. The problem of violence versus the personal - yet historically inflected aesthetic instance - is addressed in ‘Drip Feed’ while political pressures apply in the ‘bees’ poem which posits eco-awareness in response to mob rule.