Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a
hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and
tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott,
Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose
wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home;
the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an
orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie-worshipers at a Northern
sculpture farm; the soap-opera supremacists at their zoo-wedding;
the driver who picks up hitchhikers as he hurtles towards a head-on
collision with Thatcherism; a Christian cheese-shop proprietor in
the wrong part of town; the black bear with a dark secret, the
woman who curates giant snowballs in the chest freezer. Celebrities
and nobodies, all come to the ball. The storyteller who steps in
and out of this human tapestry changes, trickster-style, from poem
to poem, but retains some identifying traits: the melancholy of the
less deceived, crossed with an undercover idealism. And he shares
with many of his characters a star-gazing capacity for belief, or
for being 'genuine in his disbelief'. Language is on the loose in
these poems, which cut and run across the parterre of poetic
decorum with their cartoon-strip energies and air of misrule.
Armitage creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular,
where the only certainty is the unexpected.
General
| Imprint: |
Faber and Faber
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
August 2011 |
| First published: |
August 2011 |
| Authors: |
Simon Armitage
|
| Dimensions: |
200 x 130 x 5mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
88 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-571-24994-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-571-24994-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780571249947 |
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