Jug Band Jag

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Lovers of Kit Wright’s poetry – for its range and virtuosity, deep feeling and rich humour – may find his new gathering exceeds expectations. Jug Band Jag is a wonderfully spirited bout of poetry-making whose forms and themes are markedly diverse, while the concern for musicality is constant. Whether, that is, he is dispensing the low-down on the Gunpowder Plot, or a ghost story from the world of dry-cleaning, or a fairy tale about ox tongue; reflecting on Hitler as artist, or tracing the frustrations of a career mafioso.He gives a detailed and moving account of the sinking of the SS Persia during the First World War, in which his own grandmother and her baby were drowned, and traces the curious history of a small Kentish coastal town. A retired classics teacher sings the rivers of hell and of course, a Deep South jug band renders the blues.Wright’s vision of the world blends the sharply realistic with a distinctive brand of surrealism. Whatever his subject and the tune that he has found for it, these new poems are linked by the quicksilver of irony and the river of humanity that runs through them.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-23
Mått138 x 216 x 7 mm
Vikt158 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloodaxe Books Ltd
Antal sidor96
FörlagBloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN9781780377636

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Kit Wright was born in 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent, and has published widely for adults and children. After a scholarship to Oxford, he worked as a lecturer in Canada, was education officer at the Poetry Society from 1970 to 1975, Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1977-79, and subsequently a freelance writer. His poetry titles include The Bear Looked Over the Mountain (Salamander, 1977), Bump-Starting the Hearse (Hutchinson, 1983), Poems 1974-1983 (Hutchinson, 1988), Short Afternoons (Hutchinson, 1989), Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000, including a new collection (Leviathan, 2000; Faber, 2008), Ode to Didcot Power Station (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) and Jug Band Jag (Bloodaxe Books, 2025). A selection of his poems was included in Penguin Modern Poets 1 (second series, 1995). He has won many literary awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, Hawthornden Prize, Heinemann Award and Cholmondeley Award.

113 Namesake15 A Pub Wall in 197416 One Item or Less19 The Art of Adolf Hitler20 The Ambition of Joe Aiello, Or The Fifty-Nine Slugs23 Shadoof24 Birch25 The Bird Itself26 Creation Song of Westgate35 Halfway Round the Golf Course36 At the Walter Pater Hogroast37 Guest House Threats39 Dead Bullet40 Down the Grove42 The Spirit of Alfred Tennyson Suddenly Rounds on Ezra Pound43 Las Cabras Son Malas44 A Seashell Sings45 The Forsaken Hero46 Arrival of the Butcher’s Van in the School Drive48 The Migraine Show49 The Witch’s Tongue52 Arthur Spark Steps Out in the Cause of Science53 Gordon and Walter Press Their Suits in Vain56 Welcome to the Expatriate Community 259 Slow Train60 Torpedo Path77 Abandoned Snooker Table78 Bookeries79 A Night on the Tiles81 The Eyes of Mr Silverman83 Rat-Rhymes for Unfamiliars85 A Sentimental Education86 Just Before the Ruination87 The Gulls88 Dancing to ‘Slough’89 Last Chorus90 Caneback: A Phantasmagoria92 St Bernard and the Blackbird93 Drink So Much Whiskey I Stagger When I’m Sleep