The Lonely Nude

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'your self: created, drawn, many times over' From its arresting central image of standing naked before a life-drawing class, The Lonely Nude reveals a speaker who, even as she travels into the world, feels increasingly disconnected from it. With Dobson's characteristic humour and subtlety, the seven sections explore paralysis and movement, singularity and connectedness, what is necessary and what can be stripped away.

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Emily Dobson once worked as a life model. in 2005 she travelled to Iowa as the Glen Schaeffer Fellow. The poems in this collection then spent several years in Emily's wardrobe. She now lives with her family in Kereru, Hawkes Bay, in the house she grew up in.