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$25.00
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1 mg
Description
Once considered a masculine working-class space, the poet finds in Newcastle a much more complex and diverse environment, which includes the presence of women, the energy of youth, and the atmosphere of the beach. Keri Glastonbury captures the changing character of the city, its landscapes, cultures and histories, with poems that are attentive to local detail and alive to the rhythms of speech. These poems are alert to the ironies and surprises of everyday life, and to the ways in which personal experience is shaped by place. The Newcastle Sonnets are a contemporary take on the sonnet sequence, a form that has been used to explore love, politics, and the self. Glastonbury uses the form to explore the character of a city, and the ways in which it shapes the lives of those who live there.
