Significant Wow
Significant Wow | By Emily Cotterill
Many poems focus on coming of age in the 1990s and 2000s, such as ‘Love Song to a Poster Boy’. Cultural icons and moments from the time, such as the repeal of Section 28, rub alongside more personal moments. A careful observer of other people, Cotterill writes in praise of a drag queen neighbour, the heptathlete Carolina Kluft, and Avril Lavigne explaining punk to an ‘uninterested’ journalist. This is a poetry of the street: of slag heaps, of Wetherspoons and McDonalds, of the Brains factory and the designer outlet, of shabby but buzzing towns.
Here is a surreal mixture of feral hogs, terrariums, the YouTube trend: GRWM (Get Ready With Me), and James Dean Bradfield shopping in Tesco. Inhabiting urban, post-industrial spaces, Cotterill is a millennial voice laced with neo-punk spikiness.
Significant Wow | By Emily Cotterill
Many poems focus on coming of age in the 1990s and 2000s, such as ‘Love Song to a Poster Boy’. Cultural icons and moments from the time, such as the repeal of Section 28, rub alongside more personal moments. A careful observer of other people, Cotterill writes in praise of a drag queen neighbour, the heptathlete Carolina Kluft, and Avril Lavigne explaining punk to an ‘uninterested’ journalist. This is a poetry of the street: of slag heaps, of Wetherspoons and McDonalds, of the Brains factory and the designer outlet, of shabby but buzzing towns.
Here is a surreal mixture of feral hogs, terrariums, the YouTube trend: GRWM (Get Ready With Me), and James Dean Bradfield shopping in Tesco. Inhabiting urban, post-industrial spaces, Cotterill is a millennial voice laced with neo-punk spikiness.
Significant Wow | By Emily Cotterill
Many poems focus on coming of age in the 1990s and 2000s, such as ‘Love Song to a Poster Boy’. Cultural icons and moments from the time, such as the repeal of Section 28, rub alongside more personal moments. A careful observer of other people, Cotterill writes in praise of a drag queen neighbour, the heptathlete Carolina Kluft, and Avril Lavigne explaining punk to an ‘uninterested’ journalist. This is a poetry of the street: of slag heaps, of Wetherspoons and McDonalds, of the Brains factory and the designer outlet, of shabby but buzzing towns.
Here is a surreal mixture of feral hogs, terrariums, the YouTube trend: GRWM (Get Ready With Me), and James Dean Bradfield shopping in Tesco. Inhabiting urban, post-industrial spaces, Cotterill is a millennial voice laced with neo-punk spikiness.
