Accessioning

Through poems about fossilised fruit seeds and the sofa where Emily Brontë died, Wetton questions how we curate the lives of those living and dead in a pamphlet about looking, processing, and memorialising. Whether considering preserved wedding-cakes, a non-existent art exhibition or a human scream, these poems speak to the impossibility of containment and question our ability to map and categorise.

This is a pamphlet of poems about the stories that we tell ourselves, the memories that we construct, and the ways that we value and devalue people, animals and objects alike.



Charlotte Wetton's first pamphlet I Refuse to Turn into a Hat-Stand (Calder Valley Poetry) won the Michael Marks Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet in 2017. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester and lives in West Yorkshire. She can be found on Twitter @CharPoetry