Barefoot Poetess
$28.00
Available for Pre-order. Publication date: April 1st 2025.
Barefoot Poetess by Paris Rosemont. The follow up collection to her highly acclaimed debut Banana Girl is about journeys: through love, disenchantment, and change.
With her second poetry collection, Barefoot Poetess takes readers on an intimate journey through Rosemont’s metamorphosis – from the disillusionment of fractured relationships, complexities of culture and identity, the ridiculousness of the current zeitgeist, through to – at the very heart of things, love. This collection ripples with an undercurrent of violence. Yet there is also a softness to it—a sense of hope amidst the jagged edges.
“Besides reclaiming the word ‘Poetess’ as an act of rebellion, Paris Rosemont has also reclaimed a woman’s fierce allegiance to her body, sexuality, her selfhood. Throughout this book she reclaims the language of love and her love of language,”- Dorianne Laux, Finalist: 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Praise for Barefoot Poetess
Quite frankly, this book put the frighteners on me. It is such a breakneck, hard-nosed exploitation of technique, of veneration of the art and craft of poetry and its practitioners, of an almost wilful and certainly shameless deep dive into the blood, sweat and tears of simply being alive, and risking poetry. Sometimes I just didn’t know where to look. But I kept coming back for more.
Jennifer Compton
Paris Rosemont is constantly awake to the complexities and contradictions in our moral and social lives. She mingles wit with high seriousness, and although both pleasure and pain are intricately woven throughout this book, its overall effect is one of a dazzling regard for the resources and potentialities of language. Her writing sizzles with passion and bravery. She knows how to set fire to the page.
Judith Beveridge
Paris Rosemont is a Sydney-based poet. Her poetry has found eclectic homes, from international literary journals and anthologies through to quirky underground zines. Her niche is theatrical performance poetry. She has appeared at the Sydney Fringe Festival, world premiere of Slam Messiah 2022, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2023 and Short+Sweet Festival Illawarra 2023, where she was awarded Best Script.
Paris’ debut collection Banana Girl was shortlisted for Dame Mary Gilmore Award 2024, Eyelands International Book Awards 2024, The Society of Women Writers NSW- Poetry Book Award 2024, and longlisted for International Poetry Book Awards UK 2024.
