Exposure:
Snapshots from the Life of Lee Miller new review by Carla
Scarano in The High Window thehighwindowpress.com
'The astonishing life of Lee Miller is cleverly depicted
in Derek Adams’s collection. (The poems) ...are
snapshots of her career and are precise and essential,
with a modernist quality like that of Miller’s
photographs.'
Poem in upcoming poetry anthology - 'The Tales Told by Birds'
Poem in upcoming poetry anthology - 'The Language Of Salt
:poems on love and loss'
Video
poetry workshop,
aimed at children aged 8 – 12 years and their families,
commissioned by Waveney
& Blyth Arts
for their YouTube
channel,
September 2020
New
poem in Maintenant 14
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ISBN 978-1-907435-94-2
Dempsey
& Windle
150 x 210mm
perfect-bound paperback
54 pages
£8.00 plus £2.00 p&p
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New
collection
EXPOSURE – Snapshots from the
life of Lee Miller
Exposure focuses on the
extraordinary life of the American
photographer Lee Miller, model, muse,
photographer and WW2 war correspondent. These
poems do not form a comprehensive biography,
but rather form an album of snapshots taken
from events in Lee Miller’s life, her
photographs and the artworks she inspired.
Some poems are written in the voice of the
poet, some in Lee’s voice and others in the
voice of the men who constantly surrounded
her.
‘Through his long quiet observation Derek
Adams’ poetry gives us both the nuance and
the power of Lee Miller’s personality. His
insightful lines connect her talent as a
surrealist artist and her achievements as
war correspondent to the vulnerable person
within who secretly bore the scars of child
abuse and wartime traumas. I regard this
book as a perceptive and touching portrait
of my mother.’
Antony Penrose
‘More than the sum of its parts, Derek
Adams’ engaging sequence of fast-moving,
sharply focused poems offers vivid and
memorable insights into Lee Miller and her
extraordinary life and times.’
Michael Laskey
‘These are vivid and compassionate poems
which make an imaginative leap right into
Lee Miller's extraordinary life, and take
the reader with them.’
Jean Sprackland
Exposure reviewed in
London Grip read
review here
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