Charlotte Newman – Counter Reform

Charlotte Newman was born in Surrey in 1986. She won the inaugural Sabotage Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet in 2013 and was featured in The Salt Book of Younger Poets in 2011. She was highly commended in the Forward Prizes 2017 and was featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 2018.

Her writing has appeared in The Observer, The New Statesman, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Chicago Review and The Dark Horse, among others. She is the author of Trammel (Penned in the Margins, 2016) her first full collection of poetry, and Counter Reform (Rough Trade Books, 2018).

Pamphlet description: Do you count the number of adjectives you use, and the number of syllables in the words? Do you put things down only with your left hand or step with your right foot forward so that the left is always last? Counter Reform is a glimpse into the world of obsessive compulsive disorder, how it shapes every corner of your conscious mind, from the intellect to your social or anti-social life and sexuality. It is rarely tidy but often darkly funny, absurd, mathematical and something that needs to be resisted at every opportunity. This is an exercise in that resistance.

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