Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These
characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives
lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and
seductive soliloquies. In a collection with a taste for ventriloquy
and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance
of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ingenue
masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than
his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children.
Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes
mournful, the book's confiding, conversational voices tell stories
recognisable and refracted, carried along by the undercurrent on
which the collection ebbs and rides: the anguish and energy brought
about by a long-distance love affair, which propels and terrorises
and ultimately unites the work. Dear Boy is an irresistible and
enlivening collection by a new poet of startling and various gifts.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
(1)
