Portrait in mustard

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‘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.

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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 the unabashed tones of mustard yellow and metaphors of fruit and art, Allen’s poems create a manifesto for women’s independence, autonomy and joy. These are explicit, honest poems which embrace sex as an integral part of relationships and love.

Additional information

Weight 152 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 × 0.3 cm
Author

Publisher

Seren

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages
Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K