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Poppy by Joseph Minden (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Poppy (Carcanet Poetry). Title : Poppy (Carcanet Poetry). Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd. Condition : New New and unused. Publication Date : Jan 26 2023.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCarcanet Press, The Limited

ISBN-101800172710

ISBN-139781800172715

eBay Product ID (ePID)20058375647

Product Key Features

Book TitlePoppy

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2023

GenrePoetry

AuthorJoseph Minden

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight5.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Reviews'a master poet and one who is unafraid of turning his honed and crafted style to longer form poems' - The Gull Magazine, 'a master poet and one who is unafraid of turning his honed and crafted style to longer form poems' -- The Gull Magazine

SynopsisIn Poppy, Joseph Minden explores how the totems of remembering are always, also, sites of suppression. The poems in this debut collection take in a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme, an ill-fated visit to Penang, rumours of the Opium Wars, fragments of family myth and a fear of familiar vampires - all grimy with the trash of establishment British history. In these pages, Adlestrop meets 'Robin Hood / bewitched by a leg of tandoori chicken' and drunk Brits stumble around the Menin Gate with 'Lest We Forget' stitched into their polo shirts. Sometimes accompanied by the historian, Jason, and perpetually haunted by an old flame, Mina, the protagonist of the poems tries to separate memory from nostalgia and empire from heritage. Longing is enmeshed in old ideas and historical material from which it must be torn away. Minden makes disturbing rhythms out of the detritus he finds around him, using documentary evidence, personal testimony, dream narrative, prose, rhyme and the soft hammer blows of repetition to craft a haunted, memorable music., In Poppy, Joseph Minden explores how the totems of remembering are always, also, sites of suppression. The poems in this debut collection take in a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme, an ill-fated visit to Penang, rumours of the Opium Wars, fragments of family myth and a fear of familiar vampires--all grimy with the trash of establishment British history. In these pages, Adlestrop meets 'Robin Hood / bewitched by a leg of tandoori chicken' and drunk Brits stumble around the Menin Gate with 'Lest We Forget' stitched into their polo shirts. Sometimes accompanied by the historian, Jason, and perpetually haunted by an old flame, Mina, the protagonist of the poems tries to separate memory from nostalgia and empire from heritage. Longing is enmeshed in old ideas and historical material from which it must be torn away. Minden makes disturbing rhythms out of the detritus he finds around him, using documentary evidence, personal testimony, dream narrative, prose, rhyme, and the soft hammer blows of repetition to craft a haunted, memorable music., The debut collection from New Poetries VIII contributor Joseph Minden, Poppy, is a lovelorn research trip exhuming the sentimental violence at the root of Englishness., Joseph Minden's debut collection Poppy is a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme. It is also an ill-fated visit to Penang, an echo of the Opium Wars, a tour of fragmentary family myth and a fear of familiar vampires - all grimy with the trash of establishment British history. It is a place where Adlestrop meets 'Robin Hood / bewitched by a leg of tandoori chicken5', and drunk Brits stumble around the Menin Gate with 'Lest We Forget' stitched into their polo shirts. Sometimes accompanied by the historian, Jason, and perpetually haunted by an old flame, Mina, the protagonist of the poems tries to separate memory from nostalgia, empire from heritage. There are the personal longings shaped by old ideas he would like to escape... Minden makes disturbing rhythms out of the detritus he finds around him, using documentary evidence, prose poems, personal testimony, dream narrative and the soft hammer blows of repetition to craft a haunted, memorable music.

LC Classification NumberPR6113