The texts in this volume run parallel with the years of Austerity
leading to Brexit and its fallout, issues internalised here before
resurfacing within new narrative contexts and scenarios in which
modern cultural history competes with autobiographical conflict to
be transported elsewhere by the chimera of language. Motifs arising
from the perspective of age and change echo, but sparsely; what
really unites the poems is a cruel humour, as often self-directed
as aimed at the democracy of poisons. “Tim Allen combines images
with the anarchic verve of Lautréamont and the early
Surrealists. The sentences which result are both playful and
rebellious, generating quirky narrative threads which are soon
subsumed again by the text. Each poem is a helter skelter rush of
improvisation, an exercise in indeterminacy bounded only by the
imposed 28 line, four stanzas form used throughout the book.”
—Simon Collings “Why does what they call high modernism have so
much religion bronchial hymns and ripped sacking in it? There
is a phase of childhood when the child does nothing but ask awkward
questions, and Tim Allen may be an example of someone who never
abandoned this phase. His unwillingness to retain the answers
opened up a new world with new conventions. Are things really as
they are or are they ceaselessly reformulated into moral patterns
by the generalising powers of language? As the prose units
of democracy of poisons develop, their polished and
surreal surface becomes more and more convincing. The title
presumably refers to a 24-hour media slew in which toxic ideas try
to win popularity contests. There is a camaraderie of bad ideas.”
—Andrew Duncan
General
| Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
October 2021 |
| Authors: |
Tim Allen
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
110 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-788-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-84861-788-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781848617889 |
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