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Nia Davies is a poet experimenting with performance, embodied practice, intermedia and hybrid writing. She is also a writer, researcher, performer and literary curator. She was editor of Poetry Wales from 2014 to 2019, and has worked on several international and collaborative projects such as Literature Across Frontiers, Wales International Poetry Festival and Wales Literature Exchange. Her poems and essays have been published and translated widely and she has appeared in several international festivals. A frequent collaborator with other poets and artists, she co-curated Gelynion, a Welsh Enemies project on collaboration in contemporary poetry in Wales in 2015. Her pamphlets, Then Spree (Salt, 2012), Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız or Long Words (Boiled String, 2016) and England (Crater, 2017), were followed by her first book-length collection, All fours (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2018 (Wales Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize for a distinctive first book of poetry. Her second full-length collection Votive Mess is published by Bloodaxe in 2024. Other publications include Interversions (Poetrywala, 2018) with Mamta Sagar, Roid Rage (2019) with Rhys Trimble, Ooze Disco (forthcoming) with Amy McCauley, and a handmade miniature art book Key Blank from the Literary Pocket Book (2018). Oceanik – a poem with video work by Lucia Sellars was winner of Outstanding Poem and Poetry Impact award from the Film and Video Poetry Society, 2018. She was recently awarded a doctorate for research into poetry and ritual at the University of Salford.
<p>For all their humour and disarming daftness, Davies’s poems do make space for the serious, the pertinent, the uncomfortable… Profane and charismatic, lovely and at times infuriating, Nia Davies’s poetry glitters above all thanks to its energy.</p>
- Leaf Arbuthnot, The Times Literary Supplement, on All fours
<p>Nia Davies’ peculiar and witty <em>All fours</em> is an interrogation of language and sexuality, psychoanalysis and gender, violence and the body, and the values and meaning that we assign to each. Her poetry is surprising, strange, experimental… <em>All fours</em> is challenging, but its content…is urgent.</p>
- Suzannah V. Evans, New Welsh Review
In Votive Mess Nia Davies asks how time and desire move us errantly. Her second collection follows her startling debut All fours, emerging from an immersion in performance and ritual. The poems trace a path through the peaks and troughs of performance, bouncing between enchantment and disenchantment. These works are studies in the altered states of travel, masks, comedy, learning and love. Nia Davies begins to learn a lost mother tongue, iaith Cymraeg, and presents unfinished experiments in liminality.
Votive Mess is a book of small rebellions against systems of exhaustion and alienation, embracing lingual brambles and shabby theatre to assemble fragments gleaned from the rubble of Babel. There are love letters drowsy and excessive as well as uncanny happenings on stage and in the woods.
Votive Mess is composed out of a tangle of sex, leaf, stumbles on stage, damage, blackberries and dyslexia. There is a discharge of Awen, otherwise known as poesis. The navel of the dream is inside out.
Nia Davies' first full-length collection, All fours (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2018 (Wales Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize.
In Votive Mess Nia Davies asks how time and desire move us errantly. Her second collection follows her startling debut All fours, emerging from an immersion in performance and ritual. The poems trace a path through the peaks and troughs of performance, bouncing between enchantment and disenchantment.
9 Ritual Steps, Paviland
10 Mieri
12 Communitas / Anti Communitas / Communitas
13 Dick Joke Poem
16 I Have Taken Many Forms Before I Took This One
20 Anti-poetics, anti-techniques
21 Theatres of the mouth
23 Scores for Ritual Poetry
24 Multi/direction Bio/poetics
26 Sites / drysfa
27 The phenomenology of cut-up
29 Rungs, fences
31 Resources from Coelbren
34 Hunter-Actor-Poet
35 Sominex love letter
38 Carotid properties
41 Fairy Business
43 To the east
44 Blod rite
47 Wassail
48 Fear and the Piano
50 Striatum
52 Rig Works (Wonder / Damage)
52 1 Oil rig gift shop
53 2 Ocean Nomad
54 3 Poetics: Diamonds / Middle Sea ripple
55 Lacey
56 This would be a retrospective
60 Tír na nÓg again
61 Wear the anklet as a mask
61 1 Separation: conditions of the poem
63 2 Liminality/Poesis
65 3 Dys-integration
67 4 Poesis
69 Hafod Jam: Documentation
72 What moving says
74 Llewaidd, Chauvet/Uplands
76 Mother of OYSTER
78 Notes & acknowledgements
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Nia Davies is a poet experimenting with performance, embodied practice, intermedia and hybrid writing. She is also a writer, researcher, performer and literary curator. She was editor of Poetry Wales from 2014 to 2019, and has worked on several international and collaborative projects such as Literature Across Frontiers, Wales International Poetry Festival and Wales Literature Exchange. Her poems and essays have been published and translated widely and she has appeared in several international festivals. A frequent collaborator with other poets and artists, she co-curated Gelynion, a Welsh Enemies project on collaboration in contemporary poetry in Wales in 2015. Her pamphlets, Then Spree (Salt, 2012), Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız or Long Words (Boiled String, 2016) and England (Crater, 2017), were followed by her first book-length collection, All fours (Bloodaxe Books, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2018 (Wales Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize for a distinctive first book of poetry. Her second full-length collection Votive Mess is published by Bloodaxe in 2024. Other publications include Interversions (Poetrywala, 2018) with Mamta Sagar, Roid Rage (2019) with Rhys Trimble, Ooze Disco (forthcoming) with Amy McCauley, and a handmade miniature art book Key Blank from the Literary Pocket Book (2018). Oceanik – a poem with video work by Lucia Sellars was winner of Outstanding Poem and Poetry Impact award from the Film and Video Poetry Society, 2018. She was recently awarded a doctorate for research into poetry and ritual at the University of Salford.