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Title: THE CORNER OF ARUNDEL LANE AND CHARLES STREET
By: Tony Williams
Format: Electronic book text

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ISBN 10: 1844718379
ISBN 13: 9781844718375
Publisher: SALT PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 14 September, 2010
Pages: 80
Description: Elegant, intelligent, charming and memorable, these poems reinvent the pastoral for dark times, crossing the contemporary English landscape from the city to provincial towns and villages. Their stylish and original treatments of the dreamy, the nightmarish and the absurd are both accessible and striking, both serious and very funny.
Synopsis: Potter down to The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street and find a strange landscape opening up before you: the city's dishevelled edge of huts and fallen fences slides towards a sullen and uncanny countryside. Elegant, intelligent, charming and accessible, these poems reinvent the pastoral for dark times. They peddle dreams and nightmares, hollow laughter, elegy and joy, and use a spectrum of forms and tones from the prosaic to the metrical, from wry cynicism to high rhetoric. Meet botanists, bastards, predators and prayers, the feckless and the dead, a lecherous Polish priest and Prospero as a game old bird, cigar in hand, mourning the proliferation of oiks like you. Pop in for a drink at the pub of the rural damned, dodge deranged farmers and deluded incomers, and make for the county town with its closed cinema and publicly-owned Scotch eggs. Find an eyeball in a wooden box. Discover the moral character of sand and gravel, play a quick hand of piquet and lie awake all night listening to the Dark shagging in the garden of a city terrace.The poems in The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street are original and allusive, serious and funny. Their wit and charm plot new routes through familiar landscapes.
Illustrations: No
Publication: UK
Imprint: Salt Publishing
Prizes: Short-listed for The Portico Prize 2010 (UK) Short-listed for Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2010 (UK) Short-listed for The Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2011 (UK)
Returns: Non-returnable
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