Publications: Things I Did While I Was Dead
Rosie has an eclectic writing and performance history, ranging from singing in ‘80s Goth band The March Violets to electrifying performer-poet, compere and singer Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen. She has performed at events as diverse as The Cheltenham Literature Festival, Kinkfest and Stockholm Gay Pride. As well as 3 previous solo collections of poetry, her award-winning short stories, poems and essays have been widely anthologised. She has won both the Erotic Oscar for Performance Artist of the Year and the Diva Award for Solo Performer. Following her successful fight against throat cancer, Things I Did While I Was Dead includes both new and many of her award-winning poems, published in a solo collection “as herself” for the first time.
www.rosielugosi.com & www.myspace.com/rosiegarland

Things I Did While I Was Dead
Peerless and passionate award-winning poetry
Poetry | ISBN 9780955509254 | pb | 48pp | £5.99

 

"Give me heat. I want to singe my fingers.
I want them sticky, messy, down and dirty,
I want life and all it costs."

- from Love Bites

 

Powerfully articulating themes as diverse as relationships, childhood, serial-killers and gender, this passionate and thought-provoking new collection showcases Rosie's affecting and award-winning poetry. And, as with her previous collections under the guise of alter-ego Rosie Lugosi, it has a deliciously determined bite.

 

"Rosie has an eye for the unusual detail. Candid, tender and surprising, these are poems about love and longing, myth and mirrors, the self and the other self. Things I Did While I Was Dead packs a powerful punch" - Jackie Kay MBE, poet & novelist
"One of the country's finest performance poets" - Apples and Snakes
"She is the mistress of language, whether it's making you laugh or informing your emotions. Here is a courageous artist with guile and expertise in equal measure" - Gerry Potter, poet, playwright, actor & director
"A national treasure" - Dead Good Poets Society
"Hugely entertaining, tough talking...a celebration of female sexuality, of power and liberation" - Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate

 

Contents: Angry Goddess Seeks Similar; Catherine Wheel; Lilith; The Venus of Willendorf; Being John Doe; Holiday Snaps; Serial Monogamy; The New Semaphore; Love Bites; Dummy Hand; Glass; Doppelganger; Off My Head; Recovery Room; Wake; Bath; Waterbaby; Big Boned; Tailormaid; Mirror Mirror; Bleating; Permission; My Other Grandmother;Fledgling; Devon & on & on...; The Promise of Ghosts; Goat; First Steps; Dark Matter; This Dress; Before Saddleworth; Celebrity; New York Rude; Queer Thanksgiving

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