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    Soft Tissue
    Soft Tissue
    Soft Tissue
    Ebook83 pages56 minutes

    Soft Tissue

    By Ireti Sumisire Temitope Odugbesan

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    A powerful collection of new poetry.  Poetry as an outlet for past and present emotions, and future fears. Explores an amalgamation of feelings, experiences and desires through provocative and poignant language.
    Soft tissue is that which supports, connects or surrounds other structures and organs of the body. Skin, muscle, nerves, ligaments, blood vessels, tendons. 
    Soft Tissue is both fragile and brutal, a raw body of work layered in a multitude of emotions from immense joy, lust, fear, crippling loneliness, infatuation and loss. A deep rumination on life and love; the tumultuous ups and downs, the ebb and flow, the fluctuating and oscillating feelings in every dynamic relationship. From euphoric beginnings, to broken ends; from the desperate desire for companionship to the liberation of being alone.    This collection of poetry and prose is an exploration through various phases in life, suffering and recovery, growth and discovery. Soft Tissue is love in all its nuances and heartbreak in its many forms.  
    I am made up of held breaths  And unspoken words  Un-kissed skin that does not glow  But burns within, longing,  (from the poem Bone)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTroubador Publishing Ltd
    Release dateJun 28, 2019
    ISBN9781838599294
    Soft Tissue
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    Ireti Sumisire Temitope Odugbesan

    Ireti Sumisire Temitope Odugbesan is a Nigerian-British writer and poet from Leicester. Ireti is the author of Soft Tissue, her first collection of poetry and prose. She is consumed with words, the shape, the weight and the feel of them and is subtle in her aggressive pursuit of the magic in raw emotion

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      Soft Tissue - Ireti Sumisire Temitope Odugbesan

      Copyright © 2019 Ireti Sumisire Temitope Odugbesan

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers.

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      For my mother, Bisoye and Anu,

      my whole heart

      The Anatomy

      Contents

      Prelude

      Volume One

      Volume Two

      Flight

      Bond

      Low Light

      Shadows

      Swimming

      Ten Thousand Suns

      Melt

      Birth

      Growing Pains

      Gasp

      Bloom

      Control

      Loose Ends

      Galaxy

      A Theory

      Temporary

      The Law

      Freedom

      Fear

      Power

      Spineless

      Nurture

      Burden

      A Psalm

      Art Of War

      Band Aid

      Modern Love

      Caps Lock

      Open Letter

      Stuck

      Clockwork

      Even It Out

      Faded

      Ode To My Mother

      Scribbles

      December

      Sad

      Euphoria

      Numb

      Maths

      Body

      Immerse

      War And Peace

      Holy

      Bone

      Push

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