Yvette  (pen-name of Eve Naden)

This is the erbacce page dedicated to a brand now poet; Eve Naden writing under her pen-name; ‘Yvette’. The whole erbacce team found it difficult to believe that a poet so young in years could be so old in wisdom and so enriched by talent. We are truly privileged to produce, in the garden of eden after a heatwave ...her very first full length collection.
 

Yvette’s poetry is unashamedly feminist but it is so much more than a political tract; with a use of words that is radical and original (early warning: NEVER presume to predict a chosen adjective when reading this collection!) her poems will make you smile and will also rouse your justifiable anger… poems like The Skeleton’s Honeymoon will set you chuckling as Ms Skeleton keeps her ‘hair in a plastic bag/ And wash it when he isn’t looking/ It swells in the sink; black seafoam’ … but this same poem will also jerk you into reality, causing you perhaps to re-examine the concept of marriage… Apparently simple descriptive poems like Mum at Sixteen end with a chillingly ominous yet casual observation. The Biblical 'Fall' is foremost in this collection (hence the title) and our poet pulls no punches at all in specific poems relating to the biblical figure of Eve; in her poem eve writes to her daughters from prison for example, the anger at a woman condemned to ‘punishment for wearing your own body in broad daylight.’ reigns, as her (male) jailers parade naked …and yet the sadness is evident also, sadness at the absolute injustice of all that society inflicts upon women, and has inflicted since the time of the biblical myth. Though maybe my word ‘sadness’ is incorrect; there is almost a ‘weariness’ in Yvette's voice, weariness perhaps at the sheer stupidity of a society that still exploits and demeans, almost as if by accident, that fails to get the point.

Yvette is original. 'original'... an overused adjective perhaps, but then I have not Yvette's truly original talent for creating new ways of forming phrases. Original phrases will make you smile... make you think, as when a love letter from Moll Flanders informs that she; ‘cup(s) the belly of last night’ How Jane Eyre learns ‘how quickly want becomes a vulture, egg-yolk eyes spilling/ over restless talons’ or how King Lear’s other daughter tells us that her father ‘walks the plank of his tongue towards daylight.' We are told how Bildungswoman enters the world with ‘a ‘best before’ date stamped on each breast.’ and how Moll Flanders, walking home after a night out, recalls a ‘Wet smile. Suckling the teat of half-priced beer’. Then Mrs. Dalloway informs her Mother in a phone call after a party that ‘Sally’…’tasted like the Sistine chapel’ and ‘Paper plates orbit the fireplace./ Richard licks them clean and/ kisses the thigh of his cigar.’ OH this collection is a treasure-house of gems and eye-opening riches… I say again; 'original' (and that for me; is the highest compliment).
 

Not a word in this 90-page collection has been slotted in as part of that which we may think of as ‘normal writing in English'; every single word has been pondered, considered, examined, re-examined and the end result is that someone like me, who reads poetry for a living as it were, finds myself reading and re-reading many of the lines and saying; ‘Wow; I wish I had written that!’ Yvette is that kind of poet.

This collection is totally different to anything you’ll ever have read previously.
 

If you love creativity, if you love originality, if you love words and the way in which one-word-is-slotted-before-or-after another to form that which we call poetry… then read this collection.

If you wish to grow, to gather focus, to be bowled over by a new talent… then read this collection.
 

If you are a woman who sees the injustice of a male-dominated world… then read this collection.
 

If you are a man who thinks he knows feminism and the subtle political manipulation of women… then read this collection.

AND, my last word; if you just love real poetry, passionately written by a talented wordsmith… then read this collection.
 

The book; in the garden of eden after a heatwave, is perfect bound, 90 pages and is available for £9.95. To purchase a copy. click on the Buy Now (PayPal) button set above the cover below (£2.00 will be added as a contribution to p/p) OR if you click on the cover itself you will open an email connection direct to Yvette... feel free to email her if you'd like a signed copy or even if you'd just like to chat; she's very friendly and doesn't bite (well; not often).

Who is Yvette?

Yvette was born Eve Naden, she was brought up in France on an organic farm but now resides in Crewe, Cheshire. UK after graduating in English from York University.

As a teenager, she explored the writings of Margaret Atwood and Oscar Wilde; she was greatly inspired by Angela Carter and Emily Dickinson. This grew into a fascination with representations of women in modern literature, especially those from low socio-economic backgrounds.

Inspired by Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, she started to explore more queer fiction and poetry such as the works of Amy Lowell. However, an absence of asexual depictions encouraged her to explore this in her own work.

A huge admirer of Rupi Kaur and Rachel Long, her poems seek to provide platforms for feminist discussions. She greatly admires the women in her own family, especially her mother, who now works as a Mental Health Recovery Manager. 

Yvette's twitter handle is: @WritesYvette.