Couples
...but something has kept them together: love, company, custom. The weather.Couples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the nature of co-dependency - of two people who want to be together, but at the same time cannot help but push each other away.The layout of the book is itself a commentary on the phenomenon - the poems are placed in their own 'couples', twelve pairs that face each other across the page. Sometimes they exchange a glance, sometimes they stand side-by-side, staring out into the abyss; only when the book is closed, and they are in darkness, do they truly come together.Originally published on Valentine's Day 2013,…
Mehr
CHF 14.50
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V104:
Folgt in ca. 10 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-912436-40-8
- EAN: 9781912436408
- Produktnummer: 32564659
- Verlag: Valley Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Masse: H13.4 cm x B20.2 cm x D1.2 cm 70 g
- Auflage: 2 New edition
- Gewicht: 70
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Michael Stewart was born in Salford in 1971, and now lives in Bradford. He is head of Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of three novels, including King Crow, winner of the 2011 Not the Booker Prize, Café Assassin and Ill Will, as well as a collection of short stories, Mr Jolly, which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2017. He has also written several audio dramas for BBC Radio 4, and other scripts for stage and screen. Find him on Twitter @headspam.
81 weitere Werke von Michael Stewart:
Bewertungen
Anmelden