coming soon from Broken Sleep Books
American Ingénue
a pamphlet of found poems cut from Bret Easton Ellis novels and Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High series
Conway transforms her unlikely source material into giddy, irreverent and violent episodes which centre around a ‘damaged party girl’ wandering ‘the wreckage of New York’. American Ingénue is a dazzling and delightful pamphlet which takes the found poem to new, vertiginous heights.
Available 28 February 2021. Order here.
Available 28 February 2021. Order here.
also available from Grey Book Press
All the Twists of the Tongue
"Cathleen Allyn Conway has built some of these striking poems from well-researched quotes that Ted Hughes deleted from Sylvia Plath’s journals prior to their initial publication. That in itself is a service to poetry and truth. And how Conway has “remixed” them with her own work is powerful indeed."
Robin Morgan, author of Monster
"Cathleen Allyn Conway, through her commitment both to the mythology of Sylvia Plath and to the redressing of patriarchal injustice, has written a one-of-a-kind chapbook in which ‘lost’ fragments are skilfully repurposed as unified narratives of sexual politics. These poems inhabit the full range of human emotion, employing an experimental lyric voice that is simultaneously familiar and strange."
Kathryn Maris, author of The House with Only an Attic and a Basement
Robin Morgan, author of Monster
"Cathleen Allyn Conway, through her commitment both to the mythology of Sylvia Plath and to the redressing of patriarchal injustice, has written a one-of-a-kind chapbook in which ‘lost’ fragments are skilfully repurposed as unified narratives of sexual politics. These poems inhabit the full range of human emotion, employing an experimental lyric voice that is simultaneously familiar and strange."
Kathryn Maris, author of The House with Only an Attic and a Basement