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Luxe is a magnificent spree in a bric-a-brac shop. A haul of pre-loved and glittering objets - pralines in a crystal bowl, a handful of tame ladybirds, a portrait in vinyl and cola-cubes - are artfully displayed on the poems' shelves to represent the conflicts and connections of a fabulous circle of friends and lovers, those real, remembered and imagined.
List of contents
- Brand New Lover
- Here, For Your Amusement
- With You
- Mother Of Pearl
- To A Clothes Rail
- Yes, She Seemed Demure
- Anthea In Paris
- Poem To A Year Lived In Camberwell Road
- Emotional State Seen Through A Pale-Haired Fringe
- Super Extra Gravity
- On Typing Paper Stolen From Her Employers She Proceeds To Evolve A Campaign
- You Talk Big, Young Man. Pray What Are These Riches You Speak Of?
- Before The Waning Spiral Stairs
- Luminaire
- Highlights In The History Of Concrete
- We Should Be Very Sorry If There Was No Rain
- Worn On The Body
- The Susceptible Heart
- Poem With Romantic Demise
- What Of You And I?
- Dearest,
- Her
- Friend Vs.
- But A Love Poem Will Not Fail
- Fortune Told From New York City
- His Is A Mystery Of Cooling Towers
- The Strange Message In The Parchment
- Poem In Which
- Whoever You Are You Start Off A Stranger
- Valentine
- Scott And Zelda
- Transmitting The Fatigue Of The Painter
- Spoilt Victorian Child
- Igloo (Where the Wild Things Are)
- To A Runaway Child
- Almost Everyone Who Has Ever Lived Loved Flowers
- Pretty Please
- Caramel Swirl
- Flirtatious State Seen Through A Hangover
- But We Can't Marry Each Other
- Poem With Hearts
- Au Revoir Baby
- High Voltage
- The Girl Other Girls Look At To See What London Has Copied From Paris
- Birds That Sing At Night
- The Trap Laid For The Glittering Life
- Spell For A Sulking Room
- Interiorana
- I Haven't Had A Dream In A Long Time
- Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
- Fox's Eye
- Pixellated
- Luxe
- Tight Dress
- Some Day We Must Come Back And Explore Properly
- Your Year In Review
- "Too Gruesome!"
- On My Deathbed, I Ask You This
- Notes
About the author
Amy Key was born in Dover and grew up in Kent and the North East. She now lives and works in London. She co-edits the online journal Poems in Which. Her pamphlet Instead of Stars was published by tall-lighthouse in 2009.
