NEVER NEVER NEVER COME BACK by Kirsten Irving ( 9781844714049 )

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NEVER NEVER NEVER COME BACK

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1844714047

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9781844714049

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SALT PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

15 October, 2012

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Never Never Never Come Back introduces a cast of grotesque, tormented characters, from killers to gods to fierce-eyed, insect-munching schoolgirls, all looking for a way out. Kirsten Irving explores their loneliness with urgency not prurience, sympathy not sentimentality - writing with a unique musical intensity that courses across the page.

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Don't go over the hill, or look too long into the well, or go carousing with strangers, or you'll never never never never come back. With the haunting quality of nursery rhymes but the complexity of a dark and smoky wine, these poems brood on absence and abandonment, outcasts and anomalies, monstrosity and mistakes. At the heart of the collection are a suite of tightly focused, often impressionistic character studies ranging from cannibals to schoolgirls, but Irving also finds space in the shadows for desperate love songs to pilots and robots, satiric odes to tyrants and deft engagements with popular and literary culture. Whether turning the features of a pinball table into an emotional debris field or recounting unnerving sexual encounters, these are rich and rangy poems of a defiantly unusual character that linger in the mind as much for their controlled dissonances as their uncompromising subject matter.

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