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PublisherCarcanet Press, The Limited

ISBN-101847770029

ISBN-139781847770028

eBay Product ID (ePID)71707419

Product Key Features

Book Title'we Needed Coffee but ... '

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

GenrePoetry

AuthorMatthew Welton

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight6.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

Reviews'a poet who has consistently (but slowly) produced some stunningly beautiful work.' - the Observer 'It arrives with a unique and distinct sensibility; his poems create their own evocative and elusive worlds. There is a kind of relaxed quizzical sensuality running throughout, an easy, compelling confidence.' - Guardian 'I think this is the first poetry book I've recommended, but it's just stunning and deserves far wider recognition. While there's a playfulness and a lightness of touch to the writing it also left me feeling that every single word was in exactly the right place. Beautiful. - Dave Gorman

Dewey Decimal821.92

SynopsisA strikingly modern textual experiment, this collection of poems takes an audaciously playful approach to poetic structure and borrows inspiration from the most varied of sources: art exhibitions, song lyrics, a London Underground map, and the architecture of an airport. Written with precise attention to detail and containing exceptionally musical rhythms, the pieces are influenced from a range of unlikely sourcesfrom Frank O Hara and Gertrude Stein to the artwork of Yoko Onoand blending seamlessly to produce a refreshingly different collection of verse.", A strikingly modern textual experiment, this collection of poems takes an audaciously playful approach to poetic structure and borrows inspiration from the most varied of sources: art exhibitions, song lyrics, a London Underground map, and the architecture of an airport. Written with precise attention to detail and containing exceptionally musical rhythms, the pieces are influenced from a range of unlikely sources--from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein to the artwork of Yoko Ono--and blending seamlessly to produce a refreshingly different collection of verse., Places emphasis on collaboration. This title includes poems that respond to the influences of Gertrude Stein, Raymond Queneau, Inger Christensen, dom silvester houedard, Yoko Ono and Gyorgy Ligeti., 'We needed coffee but we'd got ourselves convinced that the later we left it the better it would taste, and, as the country grew flatter and the roads became quiet and dusk began to colour the sky, you could guess from the way we returned the radio and unfolded the map or commented on the view that the tang of determination had overtaken our thoughts, and when, fidgety and untalkative but almost home, we drew up outside the all-night restaurant, it felt like we might just stay in the car, listening to the engine and the gentle sound of the wind'. From its title, which runs to 101 words in full, to its wordless concrete poems; from its World Cup fixture list to its transformations of four-letter words, "We needed coffee but..." is audacious, mischievous, even outrageous. As in his award-winning first collection "The Book of Matthew", the poet attends precisely to each detail: the rhythms are musical but unexpected; the brightness control on imagery is turned up high. New in this book is the emphasis on collaboration. Some of this work began in text pieces for art exhibitions or as song-cycle lyrics.Other poems respond to the influences of Gertrude Stein, Raymond Queneau, Inger Christensen, dom silvester houedard, Yoko Ono and Gyorgy Ligeti. Matthew Welton turns rigorous control into a dancing display of wit: we become his collaborators in the shared delight that inventive poetry can contrive.

LC Classification NumberPR6123.E475