The Drama Student

The Drama Student by Autumn Royal


ISBN
9781922725394
Published
Binding
Paperback
Dimensions
148 x 210mm

Intense, dramatic, theatrical — an important new poetry collection which draws its strength from its confrontation with grief and mourning.As its title suggests, the poems in Autumn Royal’s The Drama Student explore theatrical responses to life. And in particular, the staging of the emotional life. The subject, a student of experience, and a writer with an uncertain future, feels her vulnerability and dependency. Grief is paramount among her emotional responses, provoked by hauntings of domestic violence, the death of loved ones, the failure of a relationship, the disappointment of her aspirations. The great fear: ‘I am threatened with an exceptional ability and no means of expression.’ The theatre provides those means, the expressive gestures, the subversion of typecast roles, the transformation of domestic objects into props for the performance of self, and the richness of language. Royal’s use of the elegiac form offers no answers, only the hope of tearing open conventional understandings of loss and insecurity, as it invokes a tradition of women poets and thinkers.‘Autumn Royal is unafraid to spark light in the darkest of places.’ — Maria Takolander‘Royal's actress-protagonist, who may or may not be a care-worker, a ghost, or Valerie Solanas, is lyrically, forensically exact as she stalks the crime scene of her own exclusion…And yet, in the periphery, a femme, florid, floral alternative keeps edging impudently into view.’ — Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne
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