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Rotten Days in Late Summer (Paperback)
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Rotten Days in Late Summer (Paperback)
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A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE
POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST
FIRST COLLECTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive . . . tender, unflinching'
Guardian 'This is poetry in the grand tradition of annihiliation by
desire. It's what the young are always learning, and the old, if
they are wise, never forget' Anne Boyer, author of The Undying
'Brilliant . . . heralds the arrival of a frank and vital poetic
voice' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Frank and alert . . . an
important voice in British poetry' Eley Williams, author of The
Liar's Dictionary 'Direct and heart-breaking' Alex Dimitrov, author
of Love and Other Poems 'A rare thing . . . razor-sharp' Julia
Copus, author of This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew In
Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb turns poetry to an
examination of the textures of class, youth, adulthood and death in
the working communities of the West Country, from mobile home
parks, boyish factory workers and saleswomen kept on the road for
days at a time, to the yearnings of young love and the complexities
of masculinity. Alongside individual poems, three sequences
predominate: a series of 'Love Stories', charting a course through
the dreams, lies and salt-baked limbs of multiple relationships;
'Diagnostics', which tells the story of the death from cancer of
the poet's father; and 'Treetops', a virtuosic long poem weaving
together grief and mental health struggles in an attempt to come to
terms with the overwhelming data of a life. The world of these
poems is close, dangerous, lustrous and difficult: a world in which
whole existences are lived in the spin of almost-inescapable fates.
In searching for the light within it, this prodigious debut
collection announces the arrival of a major new voice in British
poetry.
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