{"product_id":"the-sky-around-my-father-winner-of-the-mslexia-womens-poetry-pamphlet-competition-paperback","title":"The Sky Around My Father: Winner of the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmilie Jelinek\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sky Around My Father\u003c\/i\u003e charts the estrangement between a daughter and her charismatic but often terrifying father. \u003c\/b\u003eWith nuance and precision, these poems bear witness to a childhood shaped by fear, love and music - where admiration and foreboding uneasily coexist. Drawing on the language of Eastern European fairytales, folk music, chess and meteorology, Emilie Jelinek's sequence explores the mythic and monstrous dimensions of paternal absence. The observing moon, recurring throughout, becomes a quiet symbol of grief and longing, bridging distance with light. Through a textured blend of anecdotal and compressed lyric poems, ther sequence captures the reverberations of trauma and tenderness alike. At once intimate and archetypal, \u003ci\u003eThe Sky Around My Father\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the deep complexities of the father-daughter bond - its beauty, its terror, and its lasting weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmilie Jelinek won the 2024 Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition judged by Imtiaz Dharker with her second pamphlet, \u003ci\u003eThe Sky Around My Father\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloodaxe Books\/Mslexia, 2025), following her debut, \u003ci\u003eWing Formula\u003c\/i\u003e (Against the Grain Press, 2023). Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAcumen, Ambit, Finished Creatures, 14 magazine, Mslexia, Resurgence, Under the Radar \u003c\/i\u003eand Ireland's Munster Literary Review, S\u003ci\u003eouthword: New International Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. She won second prize in both the Winchester Poetry Prize in 2023 and the Wells Open Poetry Prize in 2024, where she also received the Hilly Cansdale Award. She was a finalist in \u003ci\u003eMslexia\u003c\/i\u003e's Poetry Competition in 2023 and was highly commended in the Belfast Book Festival's Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry and the McLellan Poetry Competition in 2022. She was awarded a distinction for her MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 2023. She grew up in Belgium and France and has spent her career working for international organisations in Russia, Afghanistan, Haiti, Myanmar and West Africa, returning to the UK in 2014. She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45859865297093,"sku":"9781780377803","price":18.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/vtVtz7j9Qo9781780377803.webp?v=1771533284","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-sky-around-my-father-winner-of-the-mslexia-womens-poetry-pamphlet-competition-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}