UNDER SURVEILLANCE by Nigel McLoughlin (Editor), Murray Tiffany (Editor), Randall Martin (Editor) ( 9781906061449 )

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Title:

UNDER SURVEILLANCE

By:

Nigel McLoughlin (Editor), Murray Tiffany (Editor), Randall Martin (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1906061440

ISBN 13:

9781906061449

Publisher:

BLUECHROME PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

28 January, 2008

Pages:

190

Synopsis:

This new anthology of Undergraduate and Postgraduate writing reflects some of the many talented students who have studied at the University of Gloucestershire. These poems, stories, and one play, represent the eclectic themes and styles that have emerged in the workshops and seminars. Indeed, many of these pieces were developed by students following 'trigger' exercises and regular writing assignments. Hence there is a discernible 'jour-ney' in this work: from the relative 'scrawl' of notebooks and journals to the more 'polished' stories included here.The stories reflect many different moods and articulate often powerful, even controversial sentiments. Kayleigh Moore's "Nancy Drew", for example, takes risks not only with subject matter but also in tone and narrative. Likewise, "A Portrait of the Rapist as a Young Man" challenges the reader with a stylised, fragmentary plot and a disturbing ambiguous atmosphere. Simi-larly bold is Emilie Williams' "Lilly", which convincingly utilises a daring 'Deep South' idiom to moving and powerful effect.Set in a quasi-mythological American wilderness, Adam Elverson's "Lines in the Sand" describes a mysterious encounter between a man and two strangers.Two stories by Melanie Beckett and Karen Curson, "Mighty Duck" and "The Last Dance" look bravely at old age, the sweet sadness of memory and the inevitability of death. In con-trast, Kayleigh Jacobs' "Too Distant to Truly Belong" is a haunt-ingly sensual piece of magical-realism. Ian J. Morgan's sinister, disarming "The Game" strips away the tensions inherent in a marriage, as does David Hendy's subtle "The Place at the Bridge" which describes the difficulties experienced by new par-ents. Daniel Wishart's "Joy" moves skilfully from laconic humour through to cool philosophising. Two stories by Sally Darby and Jessica Trerise, "Like a Small Dog" and "True Boots", offer beguiling glimpses into the lives of young women.And Sherife McGinty's play, "A Little Bit of Lemon", is an amusing comedy of manners in which new neighbours meet for the first time. These, like the other pieces, are full of energy and experiment and reflect just some of the excellent work written by students over the course of the year.The stories underline the students' imagination and willingness to write 'beyond' themselves, experimenting not only with form and style but also with characters and themes. The poetry too shows many of the overarching concerns and themes which have emerged over the course of the work-shops and how each individual poet finds a place for themselves in relation to those themes.There is a penchant for the raw and edgy in both subject matter and verse construction in some of the poets represented here, while others have exploited and ex-perimented with more traditional verse forms in order to make something new. This selection charts the further development of several poets represented in the previous "Desire and Madness" anthology and shows them reacting to more sophisticated sub-ject matter and using more developed tropes. It is hoped that the reader will find in all the writings in-cluded here a linguistic energy and tension and a willingness to put their craft and their subject matter "Under Surveillance".

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