Book of Days by Phoebe Power Mairan de Vooght Songs My Enemy Taught Me

Songs My Enemy Taught Me is a collection of back alley poetry and flick knife tales detailing women's struggle against sexual terrorism and colonisation

This is a writing of city life against the flows to capital

interruption and symbolism to articulate narratives of the unconscious

but allows for its complexities and the terrible potential for loss

poetry to ponder and provoke

Book of Days by Phoebe Power Mairan de Vooght Songs My Enemy Taught MeBook of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the popular pilgrimage route, or 'Camino' to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. Animated by song and conversation, the poem is filled with the stories of those encountered along the way, combining a multi voiced soundscape with vivid verbal sketches of landscape and architecture. The possibilities and contradictions of a twenty first century pilgrimage are revealed: inevitably informed by