# Ex-Posed: Animal Elegies - Hardcover

by **Gordon Meade** (Author), **Jo-Anne McArthur** (Foreword by)

**Scottish poet Meade's second volume of poems reflecting on the lives of animals as photographed by award-winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur.**  

Following on from _Zoospeak,_ Scottish poet Gordon Meade's reflections on the lives of animals in zoos and aquaria as photographed by Toronto-based award-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur and gathered in her book _Captive, **EX-Posed**_ turns its attention to McArthur's 2020 curated collection _Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene._ Organized into seven sections that cover the experiences of nonhuman animals in factory farms, industrial fisheries, live markets, entertainment, religion, fashion, and amid the climate crisis, each of Meade's poems takes the form of an elegy "penned" by the nonhuman animals who, due to many different circumstances, find themselves on death row. As with the source material in _Hidden_, the tenor of _**EX-Posed**_ is direct and unapologetic, with each poem attempting to capture the essence of the creatures and the horrific situations in which they find themselves. "It's my hope," says Meade, "that my words can give voice to the creatures in _**EX-Posed**_ so that they might be both seen and, in some small way, also heard."  

### Author Biography

**Gordon Meade** is a Scottish poet based in the East Neuk of Fife. He has been the Creative Writing Fellow at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, and the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Dundee, and has read from his work throughout the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, and Luxembourg. He is the author of eleven other collections of poetry, including _In Transit_ (Enthusiastic Press 2022), _Zoospeak_ (Enthusiastic Press 2020), _The Year of the Crab_ (Cultured Llama Publishing 2017), _Les Animots: A Human Bestiary_ (Cultured Llama Publishing 2015), and _Sounds of the Real World_ (Cultured Llama Publishing 2013).

**Number of Pages:** 148

**Dimensions:** 0.55 x 9.06 x 5.91 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 02, 2022

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