Smoothie
eBook - ePub

Smoothie

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Smoothie

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781784104122
eBook ISBN
9781784104139
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia europea

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. THIS IS NOT A FAD
  5. HIJACK
  6. MIDTOWN ANALYSIS
  7. KHAMSIN ON BAYSWATER
  8. NIALL
  9. FUGUE STATE
  10. BOLTER
  11. SKIRTING
  12. DEAR MRS WILMOT
  13. FUTURE PERFECT
  14. SHERBROOK OUEST
  15. THE LUNATICS
  16. THIS COULD BE OUR DEATH-SCENE MOMENT
  17. PISS-POT
  18. CATS BREAKFASTING
  19. EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
  20. SLANT
  21. WHITEHAVEN
  22. REHABILITATING THE UNDERDOG
  23. EXAMINER’S REMARKS
  24. WINTER WOLF
  25. STURM UND DRANG
  26. CAMEL
  27. MY MONSTER
  28. COLUMBA PALUMBUS
  29. IN THE LAUNDRY
  30. HOLIDAY
  31. SOMEONE IN CYBERSPACE NEEDS YOU
  32. EDGAR’S FRIDGE
  33. KING’S CROSS: 30 JUNE 2016
  34. THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT
  35. MAL DE MER
  36. THE DIFFICULT THIRD VERSE
  37. TRANSMISSION
  38. NEW YEAR’S WRESTLING
  39. IF THE GENERAL DEMEANOUR OF CHEERFULNESS INTERCEPTS A BULLET
  40. RESTORATION
  41. SOLO
  42. THE PRINCIPLE FEATURES OF INTEREST
  43. APOSTROPHE
  44. THE OPPOSITE OF CONFIDENTIAL
  45. GIANT RECUMBENT BRONZE
  46. THE WATCHER
  47. THIS JUST IN
  48. TRAVEL PLANS
  49. WITHOUT MOORINGS
  50. REINDEER
  51. REUNION
  52. RETREAT
  53. THE CORRECTRESS
  54. THE SWAP
  55. COLD
  56. MACHINE DREAMS
  57. DEPTH PERCEPTIONS
  58. 62 COLUMBUS RAVINE
  59. THE METHOD ACTOR’S OTHER HALF
  60. CRAIG
  61. THE LOCAL GODS
  62. LANDING
  63. PIANO LESSONS FOR ADULTS
  64. CATULLO’S VILLA
  65. SEPTEMBERISH
  66. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  67. COPYRIGHT

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