A.K. Blakemore Books in Order

These poems examine desire, memory, and the uneasy power within intimate relationships. Moving through former lovers, friendships, anger, and regret, Blakemore explores how tenderness and bodily needs persist alongside the brutality and disappointments of personal experience.

Blakemore's poems bring unsettling attention to everyday encounters, popular culture, and strange imagined scenes. From dancing male models to a confrontation in a London pub, sharp details and dark humor transform familiar settings into disorienting emotional territory.

In war-stricken Manningtree in 1643, Rebecca West longs for relief from her narrow daily life. The arrival of witchfinder Matthew Hopkins turns gossip and religious suspicion into a growing threat against her and other women on society's margins.

In revolutionary France, an impoverished boy named Tarare becomes a wandering showman tormented by extraordinary hunger. His journey through cruelty and upheaval leads to disturbing questions about appetite, survival, and the stories told about society's outcasts.