Book Synopsis:
In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is illuminated in poems that explore celebrity, obsession, sexuality, coming of age, and that charismatic enigma, Harry Styles. Inspired by sources as diverse as Styles’s track listings, Scandi webseries Skam, and One Direction newsletters, Ashley spins us across continents on a tour of the surreal highs and absurd lows of celebrity culture. These are poems of youth and yearning, yet they’re suffused with the hard-won wisdom that the communities we build can be as meaningful as the families we’re born into. Perceptive, witty, and exuberant, Gold Light Shining introduces an essential new voice; one that captures how pop culture’s Technicolor joy disrupts our greyscale world.
Gold Light Shining is available in paperback now. You can purchase your copy using the link before or through your local indie bookstore.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Light-Shining-Bebe-Ashley/dp/0995655081
My Review:
Gold Light Shining was a beautifully written and fascinating book of poetry which I found very intriguing. Firstly i must profess to not knowing much about poetry or having read much outside of my English lessons at school. This book intrigued me because they were inspired by Harry Styles and as a bit of a closet One Direction Fan when I was younger I thought it would be very interesting to read this collection.
These poems give a very interesting insight into Harry’s life and what it is like to be a celebrity which seemed really real. The author has obviously done a lot of research and the poems seemed very real like I was able to see the world through Harry’s eyes. There is a lot of imagery as you would expect in a poem and I often had to read the poems twice to fully understand the meaning behind them as there is a lot going on to make sense of in one sitting. It was a truly intense but amazing read and I’m very glad to have been given the opportunity to read them.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and for m copy of the book.
About The Author:
Bebe Ashley lives in Belfast. She is an AHRC funded PhD candidate at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. Her work can be found in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Jukebox and The Tangerine. When procrastinating from her PhD, she takes British Sign Language and Braille classes and writes pop culture articles for United by Pop, specialising in Harry Styles.
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Thanks so much for the blog tour support x
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