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The Republic of the HusbandLucy Tunstall10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 21st Century, British, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. Sep 2014) 9781847772565 Out of Stock eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jan 2014) 9781847774767 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
In one of these charming buildings, the pen
of a general is scratching something elaborate and carefully worded; it is a treaty or an abdication, he forgets which. Twice a day his boots sound in the portico. The marble is spotless. from ‘The Republic of the Husband’
Lucy Tunstall’s striking début collection features a cast of characters ranging from Paul Muldoon and Marianne Moore to Aunt Jane, who fell in love ‘in 1956, or thereabouts’, and Cousin Gillian, who keeps the family’s long-case clock in her caravan (‘Some people do not think this is an appropriate arrangement’). Using a variety of registers and forms, including dramatic monologue, lyric, collage and found text, Tunstall explores poetry’s negotiations of truthfulness and theatricality, accuracy and artifice. Perceptive and humorous, but never sentimental, she reaches into the deep emotions that lie beneath inhibition and the conventions that govern ordinary and extraordinary lives.
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