A Year in the New Life
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A Year in the New Life

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A Year in the New Life

About this book

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

'Jack Underwood has developed an utterly clear lyric that rebukes moral obviousness, drives against false certainty. It's as refreshing as it is instructive . . . Underwood has become one of my favorite poets.' Kaveh Akbar

Jack Underwood's poetry debut, Happiness (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular' ( Guardian). Such qualities are on accomplished display in this anticipated new collection, as the poems mature and move on to a wide range of preoccupations, including imminent societal collapse and public unrest; the limits, myths and complexities of masculinity and fatherhood; and uncanny, often amusing scenarios, such as serving drinks to a gathering of fifteen babies or group kissing in Empathy Class.

Throughout, incongruous and domestic subjects realign in skewed lyrics and thought experiments, intimately expressed in 'a new language / of the familiar' ('The Landing'). All is presented with a generosity and tenderness that makes the poet so unmistakable - and indispensable for the strange times in which we live.

'I was done in by these poems, but I really lived as I read them; each one holding life and time in a balletics of stress and flow.' Holly Pester

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2021
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571367269
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Errata
  7. Poem Beginning with Lines by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  8. A girl or woman in relation to either or both of her parents
  9. An Envelope
  10. A Year in the New Life
  11. Poem Beginning with a Line by Anna Seward
  12. The Landing
  13. War the War
  14. Please and Thank You
  15. I am become a man
  16. Fifteen Babies in My Garden
  17. This Has No Sound
  18. My name is zonal coordinator
  19. Prolactin
  20. The Long Twenty-first Century
  21. My body is a good body
  22. Poem Beginning with Lines by Ye Hongxiang
  23. Whatever I have done that was good, I have done at the bidding of my voices
  24. What Happened Here?
  25. Blood Clot in a Winter Landscape
  26. Where to start, how to stop?
  27. The Situation
  28. August Bank Holiday
  29. White Cliffs
  30. The Novel
  31. Lambs
  32. Instead of Bad News about a Person I Love
  33. I’m on the boating lake with Sean
  34. Empathy Class
  35. Poem Beginning with Lines by Walter Savage Landor
  36. But I know what I like
  37. This time
  38. Big Shout Out
  39. Lying on the floor of the supermarket
  40. A Greyhound Levitates across the Street
  41. Poem Beginning with a Line by Yu Xuanji
  42. Behind the Face of Great White Shark
  43. There Is a Supermassive Black Hole Four Million Times the Mass of the Sun at the Centre of Our Galaxy and You Are Pregnant with Our Daughter
  44. Alpha Step
  45. Breckland
  46. About the Author
  47. By the Same Author
  48. Copyright

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