The Grief Almanac: A Sequel

Author: Vana Manasiadis

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Barcode 9780995108233
9780995108233

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tell me the truth: the energy goes somewhere

This bold hybrid of poetry, memoir, letter, essay and ekphrasis shows what alchemy can happen when pushing at the boundaries of what poetry is. Using strikingly unique forms and melding Greek with English, prose with poetry, and the past and present with fantasy and myth, The Grief Almanac: A Sequel defies conventions as it steers us over multiple terrains. 

The grief of the title is the grief of memory, inevitability, and in particular the grief of, and for, a lost mother, but the result goes beyond eulogy. Wry revisions, elegy, and a kind of poetic archiving, point to co-existence and interconnectedness and culminate instead in a guidebook, a legend and expansive lament.

Ambitious and mesmerising, The Grief Almanac: A Sequel is a work that aims squarely for both head and heart.

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New poetry from Vana Manasiadis.


Manasiadis was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and she divides her time between Greece and New Zealand. She is co-editor of the Seraph Press Poetry in Translation Series


Helen Rickerby of Seraph Press says: "Vana has invented her own forms and layouts for the poems on the page, which are nothing like anything I've ever seen before. There are several long sequences which have seemingly unrelated threads presented in parallel - sometimes on facing pages, and sometimes in the top and bottom halves of the same page. For example, in one sequence one thread is a narrative of the days after the death of the poet's mother, while the other thread is a series of ekphrastic poems about various artworks and texts. It may be hard at first for some readers to know quite how to read them together, but the effect I have found is that they show how interconnected and paralleled everything is; how we read everything through the lens of our experiences and griefs, and how healing art can be in our lives."