Scent
eBook - ePub

Scent

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  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Scent

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About this book

Before his untimely death at the age of 47, Dinesh Allirajah was one of the most versatile and accomplished writers working in the North of England. Whether as a performance poet, literary critic, wry social commentator or masterfully understated short story writer, his work was always international in scope, but local and personal in touch. Witty, irreverent, and intricately observed, his writing was informed by everything from raregroove jazz to experimental theatre, crime noir to stand-up comedy. Yet it always felt, and continues to feel, bespoke to us as readers. The short stories, in particular, allow us to eavesdrop on the most intimate, unattended moments in their characters lives. Here, we get to know outsiders migrant workers, beleaguered mothers, old and unwanted regulars in a pub that's facing a refurb people being slowly ushered into the background, or kept at a distance. Yet it is on these peripheries far from where everyone else is looking that Dinesh finds his stories, here that identities are reconstructed and renegotiated, here that we learn the most about ourselves. Spanning over twenty years work, this definitive volume presents a through-line of Dinesh's compassion, activism, and literary perspicacity; a clarion call to find essential beauty - in art, music, sport, life - and to pass it on.

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Information

Publisher
Comma Press
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781910974629
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. The Short Stories
  3. The Longhand Option
  4. Easy on the Rose’s
  5. The Prisoners
  6. Overnight
  7. Scent
  8. Items One to Seventeen
  9. A Different Sky
  10. A Memory of Sap
  11. The Words to Tell Them
  12. Towelling Elbow Patch
  13. The Final Mr Benn Twist
  14. San Miguel de los Helados
  15. The Frank Sinatra Joke
  16. Giving Away Soap
  17. Microdrama
  18. Blue Hazey
  19. The Shaman in Norman’s Shoe’s
  20. The Café Storch Piece
  21. Dirty Feet on the Saint
  22. The Sun, One Saturday
  23. Child I
  24. Rubbish Zorros
  25. I Used to Get Lost in Manchester Too
  26. Child II
  27. In Dreams
  28. Real Time Selected Blog Posts, 2011-2014
  29. The Single Moment
  30. ‘The Practice of Art isn’t to Make a Living. It’s to Make your Soul Grow’
  31. The Power of Invisibility
  32. Coffee Spoons
  33. Katherine Mansfield: ‘A Dill Pickle’
  34. F. Scott Fitzgerald: ‘Babylon Revisited’
  35. The Physics of Language
  36. Capturing Snowflakes
  37. Ernest Hemingway: ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’
  38. Interesting Times
 Sun
 News of the World

  39. Peripheral Vision
  40. Margaret Murphy: ‘Low Visibility’
  41. Isaac Babel: ‘The Aroma Of Odessa’
  42. David Constantine: ‘Tea at the Midland’
  43. The Hermetic Space
  44. Hassan Blasim: ‘The Reality and The Record’
  45. W. W. Jacobs: ‘The Monkey’s Paw’
  46. What Do You Want To Know?
  47. What do you Mean Funny? Funny How? How am I Funny?
  48. Kate Chopin: ‘The Story of an Hour’
  49. The Hate Inside The Inkwell
  50. The Agonies and Alleyways
  51. The Claymatian Inside
  52. Where Can I Order A Sleepy Bell-Boy?
  53. I’ll Be C-ing U
  54. Sunrise Over Wavertree
  55. ‘The Sea has Neither Reason nor Pity.’
  56. Banal Fabulous
  57. Nobody Mentioned The Ted Stockings
  58. The Poems
  59. Bashful Alley
  60. Before the Bluebells
  61. This Poem
  62. Rights & Humanity Film#2
  63. On Girl Nine
  64. Tags
  65. Curling Towards Sleep
  66. Driving Her Around
  67. I Said, Excuse Me
  68. The Imperfection of Language
  69. Into, Into
  70. Shouty Nut Soul
  71. Lone Re-Arranger
  72. Dig That
  73. Next Thought
  74. Out Vout A-Go-Go
  75. Shaft Gets Shagged
  76. The Heard World (Rwanda Now)
  77. The Ultimate Passenger Picture Show
  78. Very Likely
  79. Zong
  80. Afterword
  81. About the Author