I kind of thought the alpacas were a metaphor until we got there

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I kind of thought the alpacas were a metaphor until we got there

Vydavateľstvo: Kim Fulton
Rok vydania: 2020
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 210 x 148 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780473530532

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O knihe

"The scene is eight o'clock English in our final year of high school.
Cassio and I have come straight from cross country training
to read aloud the final act of Othello. I am Desdemona.
Yesterday Bianca handed Cassio the handkerchief
that would end my life and I recalled his terrible hay-fever
the afternoon we pulled the trucks from our skateboards
and used the decks to ride the craters
of the city's dormant volcanoes."

The poems in this collection delve into themes of loss, memory, and the passing of time, with touches of humour, irony, and self-awareness. The pieces take place in bars, churches, classrooms, student flats, and city streets. These poems are remarks on the unremarkable, observations on the spectacularly mundane events which make up a life, such as coming across a box of Led Zeppelin cassettes on a paper round or driving across country to an alpaca show.