The Screaming Middle is a memoir of a very strange year, the year of turning 50 for one woman who forgot to have a party. This confessional verse novel takes you on road trips, into psych wards, into the chambers of marriage and through epic failures, brilliant ideas and back to kingdoms of chaos and castles of hilarity. There’s a lot of bitching and loving, a lot of fights and great nights. It’s Orwellian in its frank and unforgiving expedition through life’s daily hardships and glories. If you thought you needed Little Golden Books when you were young then think no more about trading up to the solid gold of The Screaming Middle: the novel cure we all need.
Poetry
The Screaming Middle: a memoir in verse of a very strange year
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The Screaming Middle is a memoir of a very strange year, the year of turning 50 for one woman who forgot to have a party. This confessional verse novel takes you on road trips, into psych wards, into the chambers of marriage and through epic failures, brilliant ideas and back to kingdoms of chaos and castles of hilarity.
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4 reviews for The Screaming Middle: a memoir in verse of a very strange year
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IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
Susan Bradley Smith is a cunning, beguiling writer. All of life in all its immediacy and complexity is here, delivered in verse of seeming simplicity and great virtuosity. The Screaming Middle rewards on every level.
– Andrew Cowan
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
These plein air postcards of love, rage and lust for life are as luminous and fleeting as 9 by 5s, only we are in a car breaking down somewhere, or trawling for finds or cooking up a storm. She effortlessly blends an unpretentious erudition with the sound of now. What a rare delight and pleasure it is to encounter her ferocious care of everything.
– Lucy Dougan
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
One hardly knows what to write (or what to think) after surfacing from the maelstrom of The Screaming Middle. Perhaps – ‘Kebang!’ And then – ‘Enough.’ What a killer ride through A Year In The Life Of … (which way is up?) Mind, it is screamingly funny, then, whacko! lets rip with howl after howl of anguish, then, susurrates with tenderest apprehensions. Some daredevil poet, this one is.
– Jennifer Compton
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) –
Susan Bradley Smith’s The Screaming Middle is a remarkable study of the contradictions of time. While a novel on the occasion of a fiftieth year–two great lenses through which to experience time–the work itself is composed of small fragments of glass, each piece reflecting all the other pieces. It is brilliant in its mastery of the Japanese Tanka form (Tan: short, Ka: poem) and an affirmation of the mosaic real life–in all its messiness–seems to assemble on its own.”
– David Keplinger, Professor of Poetry, American University