The Separation Ceremony

A darkly beautiful poetry collection about the storms and stars of being young by Olivia Hurton, a London-based poet, actress, writer and academic.
In The Separation Ceremony, Olivia Hurton's trancelike voice conjures a world ruled by pure emotion. Underpinned by music and sound, rhythms and rhymes, these poems harness the sonic to explore love, loss, youth and corruption. Written over ten years, these poems are a groundbreaking poetic experiment, fusing fine art and guilty pleasure pop music with the macabre tradition of Victorian mourning poetry and the witty verse of the 1960s Merseyside Poets. Including 'The Separation Ceremony', 'You and Me in 2033', 'I Fall in Love Ten Times a Day', 'We are a Million Pieces of Something That is Gone' and 'Buried Voices'.