Metrophobia
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penned in the Margins
Published:19th Jun '09
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Metrophobia, n. Fear or hatred of poetry . From urban sketches of London and warped love poems to a paean to the Boston Tea Party and a letter to an American in Afghanistan, Metrophobia establishes a poetry that is inventive, quirky and packed with humour. . Stephanie Leal's satirical verses, visual poems and prose chunks gnaw at the edges of pop culture and the everyday. Her language twists and turns in unexpected ways, revealing a bold new writer ready to 'french kiss life square in the mouth'.
This is a demanding, rewarding, refreshingly iconoclastic and earthy collection of poems for the way we live now. - Poor Rude Lines A searching and resourceful imagination is at work here, seeking new perspectives with vitality and insight. - Penelope Shuttle Leal [is] playful, experimental, questioning of 'poetry' as a specialised, rarefied state enjoyed only by sensitive types, her poems with a touch of theatre and bravura. - George Szirtes These poems are an alternative news broadcast from a young American correspondent abroad in the world. Contained within them are many of the domestic and emotional snippets which CNN will never give you. - Martin Newell
ISBN: 9780955384677
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64 pages