O Positive is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction.
Adopting a sunny, genial tone, Dunthorne lures the reader to darker places, exploring death and dread, failure and regret – the ‘lounge of our suffering’Often, he catches us off-guard: a ‘whiplash’ effect where poems shift from laughter to slaughter in a moment. Impertinent owls, an immersive theatre troupe, ancient men from the Great War and idiot balloonists – such characters dramatise our human fancies and foibles, joining the protagonist in scenarios both humorously bizarre and all-too-familiar.
These performances serve to probe and unpeel the layers of the self – all the way down to the raw.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
64 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Faber & Faber |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2019-04-04 |
| ISBN |
9780571342556 |
