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  The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street (Salt Modern Poets S.) (Hardback) By (author) Tony Williams

  

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  Short Description for The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles StreetFeatures poems that reinvent the pastoral for dark times. This title includes poems that peddle dreams and nightmares, hollow laughter, elegy and joy, and use a spectrum of forms and tones from the prosaic to the metrical, from wry cynicism to high rhetoric.
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  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • Format: Hardback 80 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781844715176 ISBN 10: 1844715175
  • Sales rank: 229,461

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• Potter down to "The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street" and find a strange landscape opening up before you: the city's dishevelled edge of huts and fallen fences slides towards a sullen and uncanny countryside. Elegant, intelligent, charming and accessible, these poems reinvent the pastoral for dark times. They peddle dreams and nightmares, hollow laughter, elegy and joy, and use a spectrum of forms and tones from the prosaic to the metrical, from wry cynicism to high rhetoric. Meet botanists, bastards, predators and prayers, the feckless and the dead, a lecherous Polish priest and Prospero as a game old bird, cigar in hand, mourning the proliferation of oiks like you. Pop in for a drink at the pub of the rural damned, dodge deranged farmers and deluded incomers, and make for the county town with its closed cinema and publicly-owned Scotch eggs. Find an eyeball in a wooden box. Discover the moral character of sand and gravel, play a quick hand of piquet and lie awake all night listening to the Dark shagging in the garden of a city terrace. The poems in "The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street" are original and allusive, serious and funny. Their wit and charm plot new routes through familiar landscapes.