Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim
Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim by Ness Owen is a poetry collection published by Parthian Books in 2023, featuring 108 pages in English. This edition delves into the life of moon jellyfish, drawing parallels between their existence and the human experience. Through her work, Owen reflects on themes of survival and adaptability, exploring how individuals navigate the currents of life shaped by family, politics, womanhood, and language.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of imagery and emotion as Owen’s poems traverse various subjects, including the impact of societal changes and personal journeys. The collection captures moments of beauty and struggle, where starlings fall, votes are cast, and messages wash ashore, all while contemplating the complexities of existence. This exploration of life’s ebb and flow invites readers to consider how we thrive amid uncertainty and change.
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Moon jellyfish live a life adrift, relying on the current to take them where they need to go. They are the ultimate survivors and one of the most successful organisms of animal life. So how do they thrive in the open ocean when they can barely swim? Rooted in her island home, Ness Owen’s second collection explores what it is to subsist with whatever the tides bring in poems that journey from family to politics, womanhood and language. In the ebb and flow of an ever-changing world, starlings fall from the sky, votes are cast, a village is drowned, a petrified forest is revealed and messages wash up in seaworn bottles on the shoreline, waiting for answers that will not come.
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