This Is Your Real Name [electronic resource]

Morton, Elizabeth2020

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Summary

In lieu of flowers, bring weeds. Elizabeth Morton's poems look unflinchingly at a raw and unstable world--the crash, the aftermath, the comeback, 'the black heat at the centre of things.' The poems in Morton's second collection are charged with a visceral energy. This is poetry as incantation: an intense, larger-than-life, tactile experience. Underneath the surface of the contemporary world of Poke ́mon, The Cosby Show, and hospital cubicles, the reader is drawn into a dreamscape of creeks and bogs, a fiery meadow, and the guts of the sea. A blindman circles a Minotaur; a black horse rides through the pages. As the reader finds handholds within Morton's poems, they may trace a dislocation between the voices here and the worlds into which they're thrown --a strangely askew New Zealand, a mythological America, in liminal spaces where identity and meaning become blurred and uncertain. Jammed full of want, need, despair, love, and politics, these are poems of archaeology and identity--where will we dig for our selves? By what names are we called? By whom are we known?