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"Strip" reveals the lives of 50's pin-up Bettie page, and hardcore porn stars of the following eras with stunning beauty and poignancy. These poems illuminate the darkest of places as they explore taboo with acute sensitivity from suburbia to cinema screen. These poems are cinematic, visual, hauntingly, beautiful and at times devastating.
List of contents
- Poppies
- Bodil and the Pigs
- Life Of A Porn Star
- Tom and Jerry Transaction
- Clear Blue Sky
- Postcard from Route 66
- Dinner With No Name
- Laundry Day
- There Will Be No Time For Kisses
- Blossom
- Postcard from Hotel California
- Tomatoes
- One Thing
- Stuff Dad Left Behind
- California Parking
- Right Before the License Plate Game
- Page from a Teenage Diary
- Head for the Hills
- The Free Ride
- Brace
- Burlesque
- Strip
- Postcard to the Photographer
- How a Girl Could Do That
- Postcard to a Future Husband
- How to Make Love Not Like a Porn Star
- Postcard from a Porn Set
- What the Agent Said
- The Porn Star Letters
- The Bettie Pages
- Momma and the Angels
- Sweetheart
- Housewife
- Irving Klaw
- Cheesecake Snaps
- Co-habiting
- Darling Miss February
- The Glass Bottomed Boat
- Heavy Petting Doris Day
- The Bettie Pages
- Six Things You Can Do With a Skin Mag
About the author
Angela Readman has worked as a cleaner, a painter, a copywriter for radio, an editor, and lectured at The University of Northubria. She won the Biscuit poetry competition in 2004, and has been published by Diamond Twig, Iron Press, Biscuit. Her work has had work translated into Finnish by Ek Zuban. She currently lives in Newcastle.
