Relentless August Signed Copies
Signed copies of Claire E Scott’s debut chapbook, published by Bottlecap Press in 2025.
You can also order a print or PDF copy directly from Bottlecap here.
Book Description:
Relentless August is a vivid exploration of identity, desire, recovery, and the pull of home. Set against the sweltering backdrop of Arkansas summers, this chapbook captures the intensity and edge of early adulthood. Claire E Scott's poems braid memory, dream, and the present moment into a nonlinear journey of self-(re)discovery.
Themes of religious trauma, community, and addiction coalesce in these poems' humid environments. With sharp honesty and a deep sense of place, Scott delves into the complexities of returning home after years away, unearthing the emotional terrain of growing up in a southern, evangelical family and celebrating incremental growth in lines such as "the list of what i/ love keeps getting/ longer."
Scott demonstrates technical range with her inclusion of forms like the sonnet, the sestina, and the contrapuntal, and she mines pop culture in praise of an oversized Arby's sign, Britney Spears' music, and Addison Rae's energy drink. These poems move seamlessly between bold confession and quiet reflection, resisting easy categorization, always surprising.
40 pages
Signed copies of Claire E Scott’s debut chapbook, published by Bottlecap Press in 2025.
You can also order a print or PDF copy directly from Bottlecap here.
Book Description:
Relentless August is a vivid exploration of identity, desire, recovery, and the pull of home. Set against the sweltering backdrop of Arkansas summers, this chapbook captures the intensity and edge of early adulthood. Claire E Scott's poems braid memory, dream, and the present moment into a nonlinear journey of self-(re)discovery.
Themes of religious trauma, community, and addiction coalesce in these poems' humid environments. With sharp honesty and a deep sense of place, Scott delves into the complexities of returning home after years away, unearthing the emotional terrain of growing up in a southern, evangelical family and celebrating incremental growth in lines such as "the list of what i/ love keeps getting/ longer."
Scott demonstrates technical range with her inclusion of forms like the sonnet, the sestina, and the contrapuntal, and she mines pop culture in praise of an oversized Arby's sign, Britney Spears' music, and Addison Rae's energy drink. These poems move seamlessly between bold confession and quiet reflection, resisting easy categorization, always surprising.
40 pages
Signed copies of Claire E Scott’s debut chapbook, published by Bottlecap Press in 2025.
You can also order a print or PDF copy directly from Bottlecap here.
Book Description:
Relentless August is a vivid exploration of identity, desire, recovery, and the pull of home. Set against the sweltering backdrop of Arkansas summers, this chapbook captures the intensity and edge of early adulthood. Claire E Scott's poems braid memory, dream, and the present moment into a nonlinear journey of self-(re)discovery.
Themes of religious trauma, community, and addiction coalesce in these poems' humid environments. With sharp honesty and a deep sense of place, Scott delves into the complexities of returning home after years away, unearthing the emotional terrain of growing up in a southern, evangelical family and celebrating incremental growth in lines such as "the list of what i/ love keeps getting/ longer."
Scott demonstrates technical range with her inclusion of forms like the sonnet, the sestina, and the contrapuntal, and she mines pop culture in praise of an oversized Arby's sign, Britney Spears' music, and Addison Rae's energy drink. These poems move seamlessly between bold confession and quiet reflection, resisting easy categorization, always surprising.
40 pages