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Ex-Posed

Animal Elegies
By Gordon Meade
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Ex-Posed is Scottish poet Gordon Meade's second poetry collection inspired by the lives of animals captured by award-winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur. Building on their previous collaboration in Zoospeak, Meade reflects here on animals suffering in factory farms, fisheries, live markets, entertainment, religion, fashion, and amid the climate crisis, as seen in McArthur's 2020 collection Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene. The poems serve as elegies "penned" by these nonhuman animals on death row, offering a direct and unapologetic voice to their plight and encouraging readers to see and hear the creatures in their darkest moments.
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Ex-Posed will resonate with readers passionate about animal rights, environmental issues, and contemporary poetry exploring ethical and cultural themes. Suitable for those interested in thought-provoking, emotive verse that challenges humanity’s relationship with nonhuman life.

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Scottish poet Meade's second volume of poems reflecting on the lives of animals as photographed by award-winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur.

Following on from Zoospeak, Scottish poet Gordon Meade's reflections on the lives of animals in zoos and aquaria as photographed by Toronto-based award-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur and gathered in her book Captive, Ex-Posed turns its attention to McArthur's 2020 curated collection Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene.

Organised into seven sections that cover the experiences of nonhuman animals in factory farms, industrial fisheries, live markets, entertainment, religion, fashion, and amid the climate crisis, each of Meade's poems takes the form of an elegy "penned" by the nonhuman animals who, due to many different circumstances, find themselves on death row.

As with the source material in Hidden, the tenor of Ex-Posed is direct and unapologetic, with each poem attempting to capture the essence of the creatures and the horrific situations in which they find themselves.

"It's my hope," says Meade, "that my words can give voice to the creatures in Ex-Posed so that they might be both seen and, in some small way, also heard."

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Claudia Hirtenfelder of the Animal Turn Podcast praises Ex-Posed for pairing Gordon Meade's poems with violent images of animal suffering to deliver a scathing and sorrowful examination of loss—of life, joy, and beauty—inflicted by humans. She highlights the evocative power of the words and their lingering emotional impact. Another reviewer notes the collection’s artful simplicity and persistent rhythm, which resonates deeply with readers and underscores the responsibility humans bear towards animals.

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ISBN: 9781590566763

Publisher: Lantern Books,US

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Lantern Books,US

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Jo-Anne McArthur

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 148

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Gordon Meade Non-Fiction Poetry Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Gordon Meade is a Scottish poet based in the East Neuk of Fife. He has been the Creative Writing Fellow at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, and the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Dundee, and has read from his work throughout the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, and Luxembourg. He is the author of eleven other collections of poetry, including In Transit (Enthusiastic Press 2022), Zoospeak (Enthusiastic Press 2020), The Year of the Crab (Cultured Llama Publishing 2017), Les Animots: A Human Bestiary (Cultured Llama Publishing 2015), and Sounds of the Real World (Cultured Llama Publishing 2013).

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