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Border Zone (Paperback)
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Border Zone (Paperback)
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List price R371
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John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the
past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn
all our expectations. His ninth Bloodaxe collection, Border Zone,
explores a far-reaching canvas of British/Caribbean transatlantic
connections, sweeping across centuries and continents. His border
territory ranges from Love in a Sceptred Isle, a novella-like
narrative poem of a romance between Barbados-born photographer,
Victor, and Welsh librarian, Rhiannon, told with lyrical tenderness
and thought-provoking wit, to Casanova the Philosopher, a sequence
of sonnets in the voice of the legendary Venetian philosophically
observing 18th-century English ways in a tongue-in-cheek memoir and
travelogue. This is a diverse collection where the
thought-provokingly mischievous, bawdy and elegiac rub shoulders
alongside the sequence The Plants Are Staying Put - with the poet
turning overnight lockdown gardener - as well as calypso poems,
where the Guyana-born winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
puts on his hat as 'poetsonian', a term he coined in the 80s in
tribute to the inventive lyrics of the calypsonian, a crucial
strand of Agard's varied, innovative, and often satirical poetic
output.
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