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Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2008

`Los Alamos Mon Amour’ explodes in the heart of the desert and unleashes a chain reaction of intense, moving, erotic and often darkly comical poems. Marlon Brando, Saddam Hussein, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Queen Mother, Hannibal Lecter, and Yuri Gagarin wander through the blasted landscape encountering Italian wolves, Desert Orchid and the London Whale along the way.

Around a core of searing love poems, `Los Alamos Mon Amour’ embraces passion, nostalgia, fear and wonder. A lost parent inspires terror and compassion by turns; madness intrudes upon the mundane; and St. Paul’s Cathedral mutates in a sequence of bizarre love letters to Wren’s iconic masterpiece.

From traditional sonnets to a narrative constructed entirely from film poster taglines, the poems are formally and aesthetically restless, nosing around London, New York, Italy, and Yorkshire, watched over by the spirits of Lowell, Berryman, Hughes, Hitchcock, Mario Bava and Dario Argento.

The poems veer from the terrifying to the tender, the comic to the apocalyptic, the lustful to the philosophical, and the cosmic to the domestic – often within the same line. An energetic and entertaining new voice in contemporary poetry: profound and playful by turns.



Table of Contents:

Los Alamos Mon Amour

Saturn on Seventh

Psycho

A Tall Story about a Pushover

Fusing the Braids

The Open Road

Contacts

Unleashed

Pike

At Least

Frigidaire

Seroxat (R)

Celestial Navigation

Modern & Obsolete

Slippers and Spoons

Giallo

The Death of Vito Corleone

For Sale

The X-ray Room

Retuning St Paul’s

Abductees

The York Realist

Long Haul

The Dream Song of Saddam Hussein

Son

Awake Again

Goodbye Radio City

Protecting St Paul’s

Buffy is Leaving Tuscan House

The Approach

London Whale

Converting St Paul’s

In Bocca al Lupo

Italian Verb Drills

Titanica

Wearing St Paul’s

Exploratory

Apologia

Withdrawal Method

Brighton Restored

Christmas at the School of Psychological Medicine

Soloist

The Discovery of Fire

Corrie Sonnet

Paper Not Loaded

Scattered

Yuri Gagarin’s Three Homecomings

Desert Orchid

Bath Time

Fitting

Immuring St Paul’s

My Best Friend

The Hands

Gyroscope

Nato e Morto

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844717101
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Salt Publishing
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1844717100
  • Publisher Date: 15 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Series Title: Salt Modern Poets

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