Poet // Performer // Educator
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.
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~ Jennifer Compton
Praise for Barefoot Poetess
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​
​​Barefoot Poetess is out now!
Paris Rosemont