Portrait in Mustard - Wendy Allen

Wendy Allen’s Portrait in Mustard celebrates sex and pleasure, whilst registering the risks of intimacy for straight women in a world where men’s pleasure often comes first. This collection is alive with references to the arts and fashion. The sensuality of the poems riffs off Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, Jean Rhys’s fiction, and Anais Nin’s erotica, but there are also poems inspired by Des’ree, the West Side Story song ‘America’, a Mulberry handbag, and Richard Curtis movies. Via... Zobrazit více