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Boom! (Record no. 7311)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781781721759
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 821.92
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Jess-Cooke, Carolyn
9 (RLIN) 381132
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Boom!
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Poetry Wales Press;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 64 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The title poem of this new collection of poems by Carolyn Jess-Cooke: Boom! enacts the moment when the new baby arrives in the family like a hand grenade . Becoming a mother changed me in every single way, says the author, my first child born in October 2006 just about knocked me sideways. There were many reasons for this, but here s the biggest one: I could not believe how public and political the (hugely personal) experience of motherhood was. A noted academic, author of a book about film and Shakespeare, and a best-selling popular novelist The Guardian Angel s Journal and The Boy Who Could See Demons, Jess-Cooke found, as many parents do, that the juggling act required to raise young children and continue a professional and creative life, is both exhausting and fulfilling. These poems chronicle the rapturous moments, such as Wakening where the baby is observed: the seedling eyes stirred by sunlight . There are also the tragi-comic Nights full of small elbows in the face and assailed by colds and colic . Jess-Cooke doesn t flinch from the darker fears and depressions that can afflict parents. There are also pieces of pointed satirical intent and socio-political comment such as Poem made from bits of Newspaper Headlines and The Only Dad in Playgroup . Viewing motherhood from a multiplicity of artful angles, the author says, Coupled with all this was the love I had for my children. It completely and utterly blew me away, how much I could love another human being.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Poetry by Individual Poets
9 (RLIN) 381133
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Poetry, Drama and Critcism
9 (RLIN) 381134
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Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Poetry and Drama 15/06/2016   821.92 PKLC003063 15/09/2016 15/06/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Poetry and Drama 12/05/2016   821.92 PKLC010810 11/07/2018 12/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17