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'How much time and energy does it take to fall in love? Or rinse mottled wings? Does Alexandra Kollontai represent a spectre of utopian promises, or merely a blank space for fantasies of desire and revolution?  This series of poems takes us through nineties socialist science fiction, family abolition, mulberry lipstick, shirts, cardigans, maxi dresses, hyenas, quitting work and spells cast with yeast extract. It is poetry for girls, poetry for communism; it’s poetry for history and for the impossible future. ' (Publication summary)

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    • Waratah, Waratah - Shortland area, Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2020 .
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      Extent: 82p.
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      • Published 25 October 2020
      ISBN: 9781925780741

Works about this Work

Dženana Vucic Reviews Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt by Elena Gomez Dženana Vucic , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 27 2021;

— Review of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt Elena Gomez , 2020 selected work poetry

'To read Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt (2020), Elena Gomez’s second full-length poetry collection, is to be propelled headlong through the dizzy intersect of postmodernity and Marxist-feminist critique, to be flooded with possibilities for distraction, and for engagement. It is a work that not only demands rereading but requires it. Which is not to say that it cannot be drunk down along with your breakfast coffee (it’s slim enough that this is possible), but it is to say that the work is best enjoyed over a series of re-readings, with time for the ideas to settle into your insides, digest.'  (Introduction)

Comradely Love and Joyous Passion Andrew Brooks , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Liminal , November 2021;

— Review of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt Elena Gomez , 2020 selected work poetry
Elena Gomez Shastra Deo (interviewer), 2021 single work interview
— Appears in: Liminal , August 2021;
'Elena spoke to Shastra about boredom, (not) needing to be a ‘good’ poet, and turning to the past with one eye on the future.'
Elena Gomez, Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt Madison Griffiths , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 December 2020;

— Review of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt Elena Gomez , 2020 selected work poetry

'What does collective action look like at the end of the world? Who will prepare the meals for those hungry for sustenance and liberation? In Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt, her second full-length collection, Elena Gomez demands her readers consider what the body needs as it resists its own oppression. A glorious retort to late-stage capitalism and all the ways it distracts us, this collection spins together a bleak map of what it means to exist today, while forcing us to consider all the parts of ourselves we have already offered to a system that yearns for our surrender.' (Publication summary)

Elena Gomez, Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt Madison Griffiths , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 December 2020;

— Review of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt Elena Gomez , 2020 selected work poetry

'What does collective action look like at the end of the world? Who will prepare the meals for those hungry for sustenance and liberation? In Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt, her second full-length collection, Elena Gomez demands her readers consider what the body needs as it resists its own oppression. A glorious retort to late-stage capitalism and all the ways it distracts us, this collection spins together a bleak map of what it means to exist today, while forcing us to consider all the parts of ourselves we have already offered to a system that yearns for our surrender.' (Publication summary)

Comradely Love and Joyous Passion Andrew Brooks , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Liminal , November 2021;

— Review of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt Elena Gomez , 2020 selected work poetry
Dženana Vucic Reviews Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt by Elena Gomez Dženana Vucic , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 27 2021;

— Review of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt Elena Gomez , 2020 selected work poetry

'To read Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt (2020), Elena Gomez’s second full-length poetry collection, is to be propelled headlong through the dizzy intersect of postmodernity and Marxist-feminist critique, to be flooded with possibilities for distraction, and for engagement. It is a work that not only demands rereading but requires it. Which is not to say that it cannot be drunk down along with your breakfast coffee (it’s slim enough that this is possible), but it is to say that the work is best enjoyed over a series of re-readings, with time for the ideas to settle into your insides, digest.'  (Introduction)

Elena Gomez Shastra Deo (interviewer), 2021 single work interview
— Appears in: Liminal , August 2021;
'Elena spoke to Shastra about boredom, (not) needing to be a ‘good’ poet, and turning to the past with one eye on the future.'
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