work in progress: dialogues & poems
COMING EASTER 2020
Following her poetry trilogy, (no, apologies, no secrets, no regrets), J.A. Carter-Winward’s newest collection, work in progress has been called her “magnum opus” by readers and fans, the best collection yet featuring her inimitable, gritty “poetry-cum-narrative” style.
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Most notable within work in progress are the “God” dialogues.
Peppered throughout the entire collection, J.A. manages to take bite-sized fiction pieces and turn them into dialogues, brief "philosophical snapshots" starring Carter-Winward’s incarnation of “god,” a character, a being she doesn’t believe in, yet one she creates in her, and our, images.
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With a distinct voice, and a slightly “Mormon” slant to her god, the fictionalized father of an unplanned world is an unmistakable foil for the rest of the poems within, as well as the human struggles we all face. With irreverent, hilarious, and unique perspectives, she addresses the most relevant and important theological questions of our—and all—time.
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Controversial, salacious, sacrilegious, blasphemous, and at times, poignant, compassionate, and strangely logical, Carter-Winward’s acerbic critique on the world’s religions are bound to provoke—not only thought, but questions; questions to which work in progress’s poems demand an answer, and simultaneously, attempt to answer:
Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? And perhaps, the most important question for anyone to ask about anything: Why?