Squeak Like Dolls

by Anna J. Leader

People aged 3-18 tend to view the year as starting in autumn and finishing in summer. This poetry collection (the author's first) chronicles the September-to-September experience of one sixteen-year-old. And how much can happen in a year? You can fall in love, miss a bus that's never coming, have stomachaches, headaches, and go on dates in an aquarium. You can write poems about ladybirds and cats and Christmas cookies.Some of the poems in this collection have appeared in other publications online and in print, such as Teen Ink and Hemingway's Playpen; others have been featured on the tumblr Poetry tag. "The Approaching Winter" won first place in The Times Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation, the sonnet "Elegy for Two" secured the National Young Poet of the Year prize in Luxembourg in 2012, and "Vague Pains in Various Parts" was commended in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award in 2013.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492703494
• ISBN13: 9781492703495
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.1" x 5.3"