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The Night Jar
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LIMBO
Limbo, a queer nightclub in 1933 Berlin, with Germany under Nazi rule, is where we first meet B and the dazzling array of characters who inhabit this episodic narrative sequence, almost a film noir in verse: singers, dancers, comperes, shopkeepers and secret policemen rub up against each other with suspicion, complicity, love, betrayal and freedom never far from their minds. A study of paranoia, tyranny and perseverance. And tension that will keep you guessing until the final line
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Ool Jalool
Gather all the ingredients/Invite all the guests. Place/Hold butter/dreams in the/in your/large saucepan/belly-button/ to begin/a little casket/ with the soup/ to close in. So instructs a “recipe” by Fizza Abbas from a debut chapbook which marks a highly original new voice in poetry. ‘Ool Jalool’ means ‘clumsy’ in Urdu and reading her work can feel like opening the door to a tumultuous kitchen with multiple pots on the stove, threatening to bubble over with paroxysmal force. With disarming energy and innovation these poems tackle the weighty subjects of miscarriage, poverty, secretrarian divide and sexual abuse. They also explore the complex issue of self-esteem and the acute apprehension suffered when trying to meet traditional expectations, a notion which is extended to the creative process itself and the poet’s experience of writing in a second language. This is work of honest self-reflection which results in an exciting discovery – poetic language found in translation. -Louise Peterkin, Author of The Night Jar
Late Gifts
Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this book's occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself? The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful relationship in terms that are funny and re-energising, his world renewed. The child's future makes more urgent the environmental and political themes which have long been a concern for the poet. Here Price has developed new forms for his subject matter, including striking longer pieces which survey contemporary worlds with arresting imagery and a hypnotic energy, the twin gatherings of prose poems 'Shore Gifts' and 'Shore Thefts', and quieter, meditative poems of elegy and awe-struck praise. As Maureen N. McLane has written, 'He is one of our most attentive, delicate, ferocious transmitters, singers, makers.'
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