Meat Songs

Animal noises

Jack Nicholls author Mark Andrew Webber illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Emma Press

Published:16th Mar '17

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The voices of humans and animals, living and dead, clamour for the reader’s attention in Meat Songs. Headlice roam their strange habitat, a severed pig’s head questions an undergraduate’s choices, and packaged meat products are ignoring the future.

In its surrealism, its dark comedy, its pitch-perfect sense of style, and its exploration of the surprising possibilities of prose poetry, this pamphlet puts me in mind of Luke Kennard’s work, although Nicholls has a voice all his own. Despite drawing attention to contentious issues, there is no preaching here. Rather, the poems express a quizzical wonderment at the strangeness of things, which is more powerful in its potential to recalibrate our views on the subject than any ranting polemic.

David Clarke, Sabotage Reviews

ISBN: 9781910139622

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 46g

36 pages