Name: A Common Garment
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A Common Garment

In A Common Garment, Anita Patel reminds us that nothing is ordinary. These intensely sensuous poems are rich in flavour, scent, colour, and the sound and feel of languages that inhabit the body and shape our unique selves.

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"In the candy pink hush of this room—we gather around a table scattered with teacups, scruffy magazines and an unfinished jigsaw puzzle …"

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ByAnita Patel

Anita Patel’s second collection of poetry takes us on a voyage into history, heritage, mythology and family. These poems scatter and drift through layers of time, across cultures and continents. They offer glimpses into past worlds and present realities. They pay tribute to the yearning of a migrant heart, the search for home and the tensile strength of women. This is poetry that peers through the cloudy lens of memory to examine the tattered web of relationships, language, landscapes and stories which make up a self.

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In the candy pink hush
of this room—we gather around
a table scattered with teacups,
scruffy magazines and an
unfinished jigsaw puzzle …

From the afterword:

‘All of us are wrapped in our stories—in the prosaic and exquisite, in ordinary moments and complex relationships, in our history and our present lives. We are clothed in hope and loss, in happiness and sorrow, in anger and fear, in love and yearning. We all wear the common garment of humanity.’

In A Common Garment, Anita Patel reminds us that nothing is ordinary. These intensely sensuous poems are rich in flavour, scent, colour, and the sound and feel of languages that inhabit the body and shape our unique selves. The common garments here are those which we wear to signify the roles we choose and the roles we are expected to adopt: but more than this, they are the trappings of a shared humanity that we recognise through all social and cultural contingencies. Enamel-bright, and warm as a quickened pulse, this collection offers a tactile and resonant affirmation of all that makes the common so vital. – Oz Hardwick

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