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Item Details
Title:
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THE CLAIMS OFFICE
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By: |
Dai George |
Format: |
Electronic book text |

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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1781720924 |
ISBN 13: |
9781781720929 |
Publisher: |
SEREN |
Pub. date: |
13 October, 2013 |
Pages: |
57 |
Synopsis: |
'The Claims Office' is the startlingly good debut poetry collection from Dai George, a young writer originally from Cardiff. His method is mostly straightforward narrative but the textures and imagery are often elaborate and strange. This rich surface is undercut by an interesting attitude: a mix of rebellious energy and unflinching satire. His 'nature' poems are often anti-nature poems, for example the darkly funny 'Narwhal'. There are lively pieces about London and New York: 'Metroland' and 'New York on a Shoestring'; skewed loves poems: 'Plans with the Unmet Wife'. 'His works about his native Wales alternate between an edgy sarcasm and the elegiac tone of the collection's title poem, placing George very much in the lineage of poets like Duncan Bush, John Ormond, Mike Jenkins, Robert Minhinnick and R.S. Thomas; they display a deep suspicion of authority and a reluctance to conform to nationalist cliche. His spiky and tender character sketch of an old Valleys boxer, points to another influence, Gwyn Thomas. The generous forms and temperament of American poet C.K. Williams is another influence on this promising young author. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Seren |
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Non-returnable |
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