Wild Women of a Certain Age
Wild Women of a Certain Age
About this book:
From exuberant poems celebrating womanhood, to poems smouldering like small angry flames for women and girls who’ve been silenced, to poems of love and intimacy, Gibson’s writing is at once modern and timeless. So much so that Wild Women has achieved a Certain Age of its own, celebrating its 21st anniversary in 2021.
These poems spring from taxis, supermarkets, long car drives through the wind and rain. They spring from fantasies, daydreams, nightmares. They spring from a woman embracing life with passion, wit and humanity. But most of all they spring from love.
Yes, sisters, now the time has come
to claim our bodies for ourselves.
For in our silver hair, our well-filled thighs,
in those laughter lines that crowd our eyes –
we live, we are alive.
Reviews
‘Intoxicating, tender, at times devastating. These poems still sing with a ferocious love, a necessary rage.’ – Ali Whitelock
‘Stingingly beautiful and sharp. This hit me right where I live.’ – Jenny Lindsay on I Like Your Hat
Blessèd be Magi Gibson for the country hath need of such a voice – made in Scotland from girders. – Cencrastus, on the original edition of Wild Women of a Certain Age