"Catulla et al" summons up the sensual and scandalous spirit of the
Latin poet Catullus - his lyricism, diatribe and bawdy - by turns
wrenching, cynical and outrageous. But whereas the Roman love
chronicler is a young man about town, Tiffany Atkinson's Catulla is
a free-thinking female confronting modern mores with both
ambivalence and uneasy embarrassment. The Catulla poems in her
second book show a shift away from the loosely confessional or
straightforwardly narrative poems of her first collection, "Kink
and Particle", towards a more explicit playfulness with stories.
Other poems try to keep one foot in a recognisable real worldA"
while still bending it out of shape with strange plot twists,
elements of folk tale or myth, and philosophical musings. Catulla
et al was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales
Book of the Year).
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