You're So Vain You Probably Think This (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Wrecking Ball Press, East Yorkshire, 2015

1903110343 / 9781903110348

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Paperback. Barring Geoff Hattersley, youd think most contemporary poets have never done a proper days work in their life. For me this poetic vacuum, this space walked around or avoided, leaves me unable sometimes to link myself to poetry and poets. We all work dont we? So in, Youre So Vain You Probably Think This Book Is About You (YSVYPTTBIAY), I wanted to address this balance, to tackle work, the toad as Larkin called it, to show the vicissitudes of the work place, how employment shapes us and what it does to us. In doing this I use a sometime working class hero Crusoe whose mix of fecklessness and bad luck acts as a conduit for my own socio-political brand of Hulldonian existentialism. Either that or I just chew the fat about the workaday.As the author, it would be completely wrong of me to tell you the subtext or underlying themes of this book, which are of course a virulent and rational hatred of Margaret Thatcher and a new blast in the re-emerging class war. So since my last book Cowboy Hat, Ive pulled together all the poems about the toad and here they are. Its not all work though, I can be found smashing up my old sofa in the kitchen, or telling you about Badger the Cadger, the slotterhodge blagging a free meal, or me being tied to Animal on a three legged pub crawl, or Renwick the serial chorer. Mostly it is work. Youre So Vain You Probably Think This Book Is About You, is a tribute to Bobby the TWOCKER, Ox the toilet door kettle balancing nutcase and the motley gang of wonderful workmates and workbanes Ive had the fortune to work with. For me, a poetry book should be like a good night out with your mates, when youre wearing a new snazzy shirt. It encompasses storytelling, drama, emotion, courage, humour and ultimately belief and spirit. Work will never diminish my spirit and my faith will remain strong. So here I come with my Northern Heart on one sleeve and my Yorkshire Soul on the other. Ive bared my heart in this book to give you these poems. Now its your turn reader, chuffing eck, buy the book. To read Peter Knaggs' poetry is to immerse yourself in a world peopled by extraordinary characters - a man who enjoys sitting on roofs, a mermaid -- conjured with such swift, confident precision, it's as if they have materialised next to you. There's also bathos and tenderness in these beautifully whittled and crafted poems. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
You're So Vain You Probably Think This (Paperback)
Autore
Peter Knaggs
Editore
Wrecking Ball Press, East Yorkshire
Anno di pubblicazione
2015
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1903110343
ISBN 13
9781903110348

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