Interval: House, Lover, Slippages is the first collection from Lucy Rose Cunningham. The poems find Cunningham in contemplative mode, seeking to understand: "the year 2020 and the years that follow". The poems are neatly observed, paying close attention to melody, with a love of beauty reminiscent of the artists she references. Interval: House, Lover, Slippages is a collection which overflows with imaginative, intoxicating images and sounds.
About the Author :
Lucy Rose Cunningham is a collector of earthenware and words. Based in Leeds, she is a practising artist and writer. Lucy's practice looks at the performative use of audio-visual art, the works she makes often emerging as live performances utilising voice and movement, and written words in the form of publications and print. Exploring language art as a holistic embrace, Cunningham seeks to use voices to reflect the mutuality between people and the spaces they dwell in. Emotions are explored through voice and movements conveyed; spaces and bodies interact as a feedback loop, collecting and exhaling each other's rhythm. Lucy's Instagram: @lurosecunningham
Review :
Cunningham's reflections on a restless year of quiet are a requiem for lost time. The poet's experience is at once deeply personal and strikingly universal. With its deft lyricism and delicate, burning melancholy, Slippages is a rich and soaring hymn to intimacy, distance, longing, memory, promise and hope... Just as the passing of time carries us through waiting and wanting, Cunningham carries us along on the crest of her words.
- Esmé O'Keeffe, writer for Times Literary Supplement
Interval is a writing into and through the pandemic; an extended poetic pause. As always, Cunningham writes with a gorgeous phonetic sensibility, paired with a slightness of touch in illuminating the details of the domestic, natural and motions of the everyday, transforming them into things of beauty.
- Marina Scott, Assistant Programmer, Cambridge Literary Festival
Praise for Mary, Marie, Maria:
'Lucy Rose Cunningham's debut pamphlet is a paean to love and maternal kindness.... Divided into five sections, the poem muses on desire, art, loss and the carnal body. Each comprised of lyric fragments, almost Sapphic in their tenderness and succulent language.'
- Tom Branfoot, Manchester Review of Books
'A rich, stirring debut. These are big poems, vulnerable ones, but Cunningham effectively bridges the gap between the self and the world... This pamphlet is a journey that questions and answers and refers back to itself-it is twisting, turning, moving, happening. Phrases repeat and echo, marshalling a wave of feeling and memory into the carefully directed movement of a cohesive text.'
- Hannah Green, The Cardiff Review
