My Love Life and Other Disasters: Poems

by Josa Keyes

Overview

Written before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the poems explore the strangeness of isolation, complex variations of grief, the idiosyncrasies of modern dating, and other snapshots of life, both funny and sad. Some poems have been published previously in the Telegraph, the Amorist magazine, and for poetry projects relating to the pandemic. Josa Keyes performs her poetry regularly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993124853
Publisher:	Keyes Content Ltd
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Pages:	74
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Josa Keyes (formerly known as Josa Young) is a journalist, novelist, poet and content designer living in London. She has held senior editorial positions at Vogue, the Times newspaper, Tatler, Country Living and Elle Decoration. Her first novel, One Apple Tasted, was published by Elliot and Thompson in 2009. Her second, Sail Upon the Land, was long-listed for the Historical Novel Society Award in 2015. My Love Life and Other Disasters is her first poetry collection. She has been performing her poetry regularly in London since 2016.

Table of Contents

Love in a time of coronavirus 1

The care and management of unwanted gifts 2

Exorcism for young ladies troubled by ghosts 3

If Sir Thomas Wyatt were a woman today 4

Sleeping beauty 5

Love flies 6

Sparrow in my kitchen 7

Bluebirds 8

Might've been 9

Bearded lady 10

Dear teenage boy 11

On Kings Cross Station I 3

Do not go dowdy 14

Warm enough 15

Back to school 16

Not neutrinos 17

Not drowning 19

Witches' recruitment drive 20

Ladies beware 21

The new Narcissus 22

Arclight 23

In the British Museum 24

River run 26

On failing at the challenge of co-ordinated lingerie 27

Carpe tempore 28

Fly 29

Caddis fly larva 30

Iron man 31

The loneliest fetishist 32

Swipe left 35

That sexy ghost of a dress 36

Some people have imaginary friends 38

Solitary spooling 39

Armed and dangerous 41

Runner beans 42

Runaway 43

Temptation 44

In the bin 45

Stink 46

I will only like you if my nose does 47

Lost 48

Grief has no shore 49

A first son 50

Naked as Eve exiled from the garden of Eden 52

Antithesis 53

1919/2020 54

A last Titanic menu 55

Skin 56

Kissing 57

Love is blind 58

Long after Sappho 60

Acknowledgements 61

Praise for fiction by Josa Keyes 63