In the original Canadian-English... #Poetry #Lust #Chemistry @KikiFolle

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By Amanda Earl (Guest Blogger)

I wrote the majority of the poem Trouble in less than forty-eight hours after the beginning of a long-distance relationship with a notorious Canadian writer. It turns out we loved each other’s writing, shared many literary interests and had some kinks in common. You know how it feels when you have chemistry with someone. Life suddenly becomes thrilling with every moment full of energy and excitement. Our conversations not only turned me on, but they also fired up my creativity. In between our texts, I expended pent-up sexual tension through writing. To combine art and libido is one of my favourite forms of inspiration and expression.

Blurb

A pamphlet-length poem, Amanda Earl’s Trouble narrates a lust affair that defies convention. Exploring desire through popular culture, literature, language and mythology, Earl takes readers on an intoxicating journey: a jolt of innovative erotica.

Buy Link

https://www.hempressbooks.com/shop/p/preorder-trouble-by-amanda-earl

Additional Links

Featured interview on What We’ve Been Reading, a podcast with Wendy Allen and Charley Barnes

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cRhpXeyqvkIeqWQ2lpA4j?si=0087e8ad3629445f

Review of Trouble by Katy Wimhurst

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5060491372

Excerpt

let us read Story of the Eye

together, a coupla deviants like us. no fuss

over coercion. a policy of trust

no disgust

how the dark corrupts the day

a willow tree leans & leans

into the water

supple branch. I am flexible

he says, are you?

she is lithesome

submission is subtle

as she bends

his hands, his whip, her argentine skin

prepare your body, he tells her

his palms glancing over

her buttocks & calves

the leather snaps & whistles

she feels the air first then a sting against her ass

he strikes her again

and presses his lips

against red welts

her porcelain flesh livid

a violet bloom

she doesn’t flinch

her fingers tighten

around ropes holding her in

her lips bitten white fingernails

curling into her palms

she soaks the sheets

About the Author

Amanda Earl (she/her) has been a working writer and editor in multiple genres for over twenty years. Her mission is whimsy, exploration, and connection with fellow misfits. She has published poetry, visual poetry, short fiction and a novel. For over a decade, she belonged to the Erotica Readers and Writers Association where she connected with many great writers, publishers and editors, resulting in the publication of a filthy novella, and short smutty tales in over twenty anthologies, including the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, and several anthologies edited by Rachel Kramer-Bussel for Cleis Press.

Earl is a queer writer, visual poet, editor, and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, and editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, Sweden, 2021).

Her books include Beast Body Epic (AngelHousePress, 2023), Trouble (Hem Press, 2022), and Kiki (Chaudiere Books, 2014; Invisible Publishing, Canada, 2019); A World of Yes (Devil House, 2014) and Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl (Coming Together, 2014).

In 2024 a digital chapbook entitled Seasons, an excerpt from Welcome to Upper Zygonia will be published by Full House Literary.

More information is available at AmandaEarl.com and https://linktr.ee/amandaearl. You can also subscribe to her newsletter, Amanda Thru the Looking Glass for sporadic updates on publishing activities, chronic health issues and finding joy in troubled times.