Greta Bellamacina Books

This new selected poems confirms Greta Bellamacina as one of the most significant female voices under 30 in British poetry. It brings together her sold-out 2016 collection Perishing Tame - “a dazzling meditation on motherhood, female identity, ennui, and love” - with 14 new poems from 2017 including the anthemic Tomorrow’s Women, which has been turned into a film for British Vogue.Bellamacina writes with a liquid musicality and existential complexity, influenced by the French Surrealists, Slyvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. Her poems encapsulate the contemporary moment— dealing with the refugee crisis and Brexit, as well as cultural events like the deaths of Leonard Cohen and Heathcote Williams. She unafraid to explore big themes such as technology and revolution, and always with a romantic intimacy. The poems in this beautifully designed volume are transcendent, serious, and euphoric. “Greta has a magical sense for words, which she uses like colours or musical notes: an abundant feeling for them, a capacious reservoir of them, seeking form.”- A.C Grayling“Greta has a beautiful and powerful use of language.”- Vivienne Westwood “Bellamacina is garnering critical acclaim for her way with words and her ability to translate the classic poetic form into the contemporary landscape”. - Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine

A vivid, powerful anthology of poems by and for young women, giving voice to a new generation of international poets, with themes of feminism, empowerment, resilience, confidence, and integrity.SMEAR: Poems For Girls presents a curated, all-female lineup of poets from different countries and addresses issues of trauma, survivorship, independence, and body positivity. As described on Dazed.com: "The poetry collection celebrating the imperfect, frank woman, SMEAR is chronicling the voices of women, unapologetically confronting self-image, body autonomy and our relationships with each other." The first North American edition of SMEAR will include an expanded selection of poems from international woman poets.

Combines vivid imagery of French surrealism and British romantic poetry with modern, first-person examination of love, gender identity, and motherhood

In her new collection, published in association with New River Press, Greta Bellamacina employs metaphors of wind, dawn, trees and fire to explore an interior world. A personal book about love, loss, nature, depression and recovery, the wind in Who Will Make the Fire becomes the biographer of the self.