Jack Underwood

A Year in the New Life (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 49 Min.
Sprecher: Underwood, Jack

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Produktbeschreibung

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Jack Underwood's poetry debut, Happiness (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular' (Guardian). Such qualities are on accomplished display in this anticipated new collection, as the poems mature and move on to a wide range of preoccupations, including imminent societal collapse and public unrest; the limits, myths and complexities of masculinity and fatherhood; and uncanny, often amusing scenarios, such as serving drinks to a gathering of fifteen babies or group kissing in Empathy Class. Throughout, incongruous and domestic subjects realign in skewed lyrics and thought experiments, intimately expressed in 'a new language / of the familiar' ('The Landing'). All is presented with a generosity and tenderness that makes the poet so unmistakable - and indispensable for the strange times in which we live.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571367276
• Artikelnr.: 68099428

Autorenporträt

Jack Underwood is an award-winning poet, writer and critic. First published as part of the Faber New Poets seriesin 2009, he is author of two collections of poetry, Happiness (Faber, 2015) and A Year in the New Life (Faber, 2021) and his debut book of non-fiction, Not Even This was published in 2021 by Corsair. He is senior lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths College.