Smoothie
Book Details
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 poetsPoetry by individual poets
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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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