In her second collection, award-winning poet and playwright Rosy Carrick presents a passionate, lyrical and unflinchingly intimate collage of ruptured memory, drowned childhood, irreducible violence, and the intoxicating chimera of inviolable desire.
Experimental and playful, the poems dart across a fractured and eclectic terrain: from quantum mechanics, grimy London sex clubs and fridged women to blood retinal barrier corruption, haunted reservoirs and salted gastropods; from Baudrillards semiotics to the architectural aspirations of Elizabeth Bennet; from gurning infants to ecstatic glitter and misplaced canine arseholes; and always back to how it might be possible to love from under the rubble.
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A fearless, glitter-streaked dive into memory, desire and the mess of being alive.
Rosy Carrick is a writer and performer whose work charts an unusually eclectic trajectory. Her debut poetry collection Chokey was published by Burning Eye in 2018, and her debut play Passionate Machine won the award for Best New Play at Brighton Fringe, and The Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence at Edinburgh Fringe in 2018, before touring internationally throughout 2019.
Between 2022 and 2024, Rosy co-wrote a new videogame with ZA/UM studio, the makers of the explosively successful and multi-award-winning Disco Elysium.
Her second play Musclebound focused on the power and performance of female sexuality via tortured 80s beefcake, and motherhood, was on tour 2024-25.
Rosy has co-hosted the Glastonbury Poetry & Words stage for the last decade. She co-hosted the Latitude poetry stage between 2011 and 2016, and was co-curator and co-host of the Port Eliot poetry stage between 2017 and 2019. She ran the monthly performance poetry event Hammer & Tongue Brighton between 2008 and 2015, as well as the annual Poets vs MCs event at Brightons Concorde 2.
Rosy has a PhD on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and has released two books of his work in translation: Volodya (Enitharmon, 2015) and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Smokestack, 2017). She is currently working on Dochka: a new collection of Mayakovsky's never-before-translated poetry for children.
