Hot Sauce

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By Kaycee Hill

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Hot Sauce is the award-winning debut poetry collection by Kaycee Hill, exploring the journey of coming of age as a woman. Set against a unique urban-pastoral backdrop, the poems delve into themes of connection, memory, family, and the female experience with vivid, smoky lyricism and rich imagery. Hill reflects both inwardly and outwardly, touching on personal moments alongside wider social and natural landscapes.
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This collection will appeal to readers interested in contemporary poetry that explores identity, place, and the female experience, especially those drawn to lyricism infused with cultural and natural imagery.

Winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize. Kaycee Hill frankly explores coming of age as a woman – and the intricacies of connection and memory – against an urban-pastoral landscape. Reflecting on her life and those in it, as well as first-times, underground scenes and the female body, she looks towards what is unflinchingly personal.

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In her award-winning debut collection, Hot Sauce, Kaycee Hill frankly explores coming of age as a woman and the intricacies of connection and memory against an urban-pastoral landscape.

Raging with vivid, smoky lyricism and full-blooded imagery, Kaycee Hill's poems are both a beginning and a continuation. Reflecting on her life and those in it, as well as first-times, underground scenes, and the female body, she looks towards what is unflinchingly personal, and also outwards: towards family and strangers, nature and place, and a world that shapeshifts before us.

Winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize.

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Reviewers praise Hot Sauce for its sensuous and vivid imagery that captures the complexities of youth and place, from working-class towns to underground scenes. Aviva Dautch highlights Hill's ability to evoke beauty in unexpected places and the sensuous heat of her language. The poems skilfully intertwine elements from the natural world, music, and folklore, creating a rich and surreal lyrical landscape that resonates like "hot pepper" on the tongue.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780376370

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Edition: Paperback original

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 72

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About the Author

Kaycee Hill is a poet and digital mixed media artist. Now based in Southampton, she was born in Winchester and grew up in a working-class, mixed-heritage household British and Caribbean in Andover. She spent the past five years working within the healthcare sector as a domiciliary carer and as a support worker for adults with mild learning difficulties.Kaycee was selected for Poetry Ambassadors during the height of the pandemic, was a shortlisted poet for the Poetry London Mentoring Scheme 2020, and has been commended for her poetry by The Young Poets Network. She was one of the three winners of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize in 2021, and her first book-length collection, Hot Sauce, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2023.