Votive Mess

Votive Messis a book of small rebellions against systems of exhaustion and alienation, tracing Welsh poet Nia Davies' efforts toa lost mother tongue, y iaith Gymraeg, andembracing lingual brambles and shabby theatre to assemble fragments gleaned from the rubble of Babel.. The navel of the dream is inside out.

Nia Davies'second collection follows her startling debutAll fours, emerging from an immersion in performance and ritual. The poems trace a path through the peaks and troughs of performance, bouncing between enchantment and disenchantment. These works are studies in the altered states of travel, masks, comedy, learning and love.Nia Davies' first full-length collection,All fours(Bloodaxe Books, 2017), was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2018 (Wales Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize.