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Paris Rosemont’s follow up collection to her highly acclaimed debut Banana Girl, is about journeys: through love, disenchantment, and change.
Paris Rosemont’s debut Banana Girl exploded onto the poetry scene – a hybrid of experimental styles and a fresh, edgy voice. With her second poetry collection, Barefoot Poetess, Rosemont has moved away from the high voltage visual acrobatics of her debut. This shift in tone showcases Rosemont’s versatility and a deepening maturity—both in content and craft. Her unique voice has become more distilled, her craft more finely controlled. She writes with a sharper blade.
Barefoot Poetess takes readers on an intimate journey through Rosemont’s metamorphosis – from the disillusionment of fractured relationships, complexities of culture and identity, the ridiculousness of the current zeitgeist, through to – at the very heart of things, love. This collection ripples with an undercurrent of violence. Yet there is also a softness to it—a sense of hope amidst the jagged edges.
Author: Paris Rosemont
Paperback Published 1 April 2025 84 pages