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The Republic of the Husband

By: Publication details: United Kingdom; Carcanet Press Ltd; 30 Sep 2014Description: 80 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781847772565
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.92
Summary: Lucy Tunstall's striking debut 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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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Poetry and Drama 821.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn PKLC005770
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Poetry and Drama 821.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn For Sale PKLC000027
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Lucy Tunstall's striking debut 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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