Smoothie

Name: Smoothie
Brand: Carcanet Press Ltd
SKU: 9781784104122
Price: 1800 KES
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ISBN: 9781784104122

by Claudine Toutoungi

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1784104124

ISBN-13 9781784104122

Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd

Imprint Carcanet Poetry

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 28th, 2017

Print length 80 Pages

Weight 128 grams

Dimensions 21.70 x 14.20 x 0.80 cms

Product Classification: Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets

KSh 1,800.00

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A tender, exuberant and deliciously dark exploration of our desire to communicate, whatever the cost. Smoothie evokes the intimacy of Raymond Carver, the surreal humour of Matthew Sweeney and candour of Emily Berry, while remaining disarmingly fresh in its blend of desire and dislocation.

Smoothie is Claudine Toutoungi’s debut collection of poems. It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous, comical and sometimes – often enough to fend off despair – fulfilled. Smoothie plots the wayward wanderings of a beguiling cast of misfits – hotel eavesdroppers, city interlopers, lone wolves, phantom bird-watchers, disaffected language robots and triumphant piano-swallowers – as they try to express themselves. The poems are candid without being confessional: the poet’s ‘I’ encompasses the reader. Language’s smooth surface bubbles up as Toutoungi’s characters reveal their peculiarly twenty-first-century disorientations, riffing off loneliness, authenticity and heartbreak as they go.

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