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OverviewThe first volume in the Salt Modern Poets series. This volume collects together three outstanding new talents who have recently emerged on the contemporary British poetry scene. Simon Barraclough, Luke Kennard and Chris McCabe have all been published since the start of the millennium and each represents a very different poetics, from witty and urbane lyrics, absurd and surreal dialogues and political and social satire. The selection provides an invaluable introduction to the poets' work and provides a stepping stone to further reading. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simon Barraclough , Luke Kennard , Chris McCabePublisher: Salt Publishing Imprint: Salt Publishing Volume: 1 Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 14.00cm Weight: 0.113kg ISBN: 9781844718139ISBN 10: 1844718131 Pages: 80 Publication Date: 05 May 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsSIMON BARRACLOUGH Los Alamos Mon Amour Saturn on Seventh The Open Road Contacts Pike Frigidaire Giallo Abductees Goodbye Radio City London Whale Brighton Restored Christmas at the School of Psychological Medicine Soloist Desert Orchid Fitting Outlook Good LUKE KENNARD To a Wolf Plethoric Air The Murderer A Pergola of Exceptional Beauty Gerald Variations The Dusty Era The Last Days of Advertising CHRIS McCABE Three London Poems Poems for Lunch Michelangelo Manufactured by the Murdoch Empire The Mananger Abu Ghraib The Pete Doherty in Prison Poem Letter to Apollinaire Written in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery The Transmidland Liverpool to London ExpressReviewsAuthor InformationSimon Barraclough won the poetry section of the London Writers' Prize in 2000 and is the author of the collections Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt 2008) and Bonjour Tetris (Penned in the Margins 2010). He is also the editor of the multi-poet homage to Hitchcock's seminal thriller, Psycho Poetica (Sidekick Books 2012) and is co-author (along with Chris McCabe and Isobel Dixon) of The Debris Field: Salvaging the Titanic in Word, Sound and Image (Sidekick Books 2013). Luke Kennard is a poet, critic, dramatist and pugilist. He is compassionate, but prone to anxiety and bleak introspection. Many have called him polite and quite funny, but add that he suffers from a tendency towards constant nervous laughter and an apparently involuntary rictus of disdain. His poetry and criticism have appeared in Stride Magazine, Sentence, Echo:Location, The Tall Lighthouse Review, Reactions 4, Orbis, 14 Magazine, The Flying Post, Exultations & Difficulties. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for Best Collection in the 2007 Forward Poetry Prizes. He is quite tall. Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His poetry has featured in a number of magazines including Magma and Poetry Review. His first collection The Hutton Inquiry was published in 2005. He has discussed and read his poetry on BBC World Service, featured a poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines and performs his work regularly. He currently works as Joint Librarian of The Poetry Library and lives in Dagenham with his wife and son. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |