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De Chirico's threads

Rumens, Carol

Authors

Carol Rumens



Abstract

De Chirico’s Threads, the new collection of poems from Carol Rumens features an unusual centre-piece, a verse-play, fizzing with ideas and surrealist imagery, based on the life and work of the Italian painter Georges De Chirico, as well as forty pages of distinctive and beautifully crafted individual poems by one of the UK’s best poets. An acute socio-political awareness, sometimes satirical, sometimes tender, inspires a number of pieces such as the distopian vision of ‘2084’, while ‘The Tadpole goddess’, is a clever alternative nature poem. Her delight in form is displayed in the series ‘Six Sonnets on Petrarchan Themes’. Also here are poems about various places in London, such as the Crystal Palace rail station and ‘East Ending’ which celebrates an old music hall. Sophisticated, playful, relevant and humane, a new collection by Carol Rumens is not to be missed.

Citation

Rumens, C. (2010). De Chirico's threads. Seren Books

Book Type Authored Book
Publication Date Jun 14, 2010
Deposit Date Dec 19, 2014
Publisher Seren Books
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Book Title De Chirico's threads
ISBN 978-1-85411-534-8
Keywords Poetry
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/369915
Publisher URL https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/de-chiricos-threads

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