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Killer Verse

Poems of Murder and Mayhem

Harold Schechter editor KURT BROWN editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Everyman

Published:30th Sep '11

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Murder runs rampant in this spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadliest art.

In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Mafia hit-men.In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Mafia hit-men. Browning, Hardy, Auden, Mark Doty, Thom Gunn, Simon Armitage and Stevie Smith are only a few of the wide range of poets, old and new, whose comic, chilling and occasionally profound poetic musings on murder are gathered in this uniquely - and irresistibly - heart-racing volume.

ISBN: 9781841597904

Dimensions: 165mm x 110mm x 18mm

Weight: 232g

256 pages