Ian Duhig's The Speed of Dark is structured around his astonishing
reworking of the text of Le Roman de Fauvel, a medieval text that
railed against the corruption of the 12th-century French court and
church. In Duhig's hands, however, the tale of the power-mad
horse-king Fauvel gains a terrifying and almost prophetic
contemporary relevance, and is identified with more recent
crusades, crazed ambitions and insatiable greeds. Elsewhere Duhig's
many admirers will be delighted by his new ballads and elegies, his
erudite high jinks and his low gags - with which he builds on the
new imaginative territory he staked out in The Lammas Hireling to
such universal acclaim. The Speed of Dark again shows Duhig as one
the most capacious and brilliant minds in contemporary poetry. 'The
most original poet of his generation' Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian
'His poetry is learned, rude, elegant, sly and funny, mixing gilded
images, belly-laughs and esoteric lore about language (including
Irish), art, history, politics and children's word-games' Ruth
Padel, Independent on Sunday 'Duhig telescopes topical allusions,
scholarly references and coarse humour into tightly-shaped, surreal
poems which burst open with explosive moral force' Alan Brownjohn,
Sunday Times
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