Sweet, like Rinky-Dink

Mark Waldron (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

80 Seiten

2019
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-459-8 (ISBN)

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Mark Waldron’s fourth collection shows his always surreal work delivering even more surprises as he depicts the absurdity behind the posturing of human beings in society. Sometimes metaphysical, sometimes apparently confessional, often hilarious, they show our lives as both funny and sad, dark and light, silly and serious.

Sometimes metaphysical, sometimes apparently confessional, sometimes challenging, often hilarious, Mark Waldron's poems take you by the arm and usher you in to a dark/light, funny/sad, silly/serious world which is exactly what the actual world looks like if you creep up on it and take it by surprise. As human beings living in society we’re supposed to keep what we really think hidden, but the poems of Sweet, like Rinky-Dink want to look at the absurdity behind our posturing, because in looking at it squarely in the face we might hope to have some freedom from it. Sweet, like Rinky-Dink is Mark Waldron’s fourth collection, following Meanwhile, Trees (2016), published by Bloodaxe, The Brand New Dark (2008) and The Itchy Sea (2011), both from Salt.

Mark Waldron was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in London. He works in advertising and lives in East London with his wife and son. He began writing poetry in his early 40s. He published two collections with Salt, The Brand New Dark (2008) and The Itchy Sea (2011), which were followed by two from Bloodaxe, Meanwhile, Trees (2016) and Sweet, like Rinky-Dink (2019).

13 I wish I loved lawnmowers
15 Brute Creation
16 Sixteen Found Dogs
17 The Take-Off
18 Las Aves Vacías
19 Sarouk Mohajeran
21 Your Face
22 Diving for Pearls
23 Sweet, like Rinky-Dink
24 The Stick
25 Light that falls
26 WW1 Marcie
28 What are things
29 The body is a kind of home,
33 Hobnobbing with Elephants
34 A Scabbarding
35 Manno
36 A Drip
37 Oh no,
38 Coming Through!
39 Endpiece
40 Supination
41 How to Get a Gibbet through the Small Hole
42 Poor light,
43 Angry with Trees
44 The Dragonﬂy and Berries
46 My Hopeless Marcie
47 Ice Cream for I Scream
48 As Though Begat, but Not
49 How scrubbed-up clean
50 The first time I came upon him,
52 How to Tap a Field Mushroom
53 A Closed Sandwich
54 The main event
57 No wonder
58 A Flying Visit
59 Ordinary People, We Just Don’t See Them
60 The Wild West
61 Even now that we live exclusively
63 What are you doing taking the air
64 My God, my Marcie’s got
65 My brain likes fish,
66 My brain is a fool,
67 My boneheaded brain
69 The words you sweat,
70 The Lighthouse Keeper
72 Buddies
73 Even when
74 Trees, Breeze and Rabbits
76 Childhood

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2019
Verlagsort	Tyne and Wear
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-78037-459-3 / 1780374593
ISBN-13	978-1-78037-459-8 / 9781780374598
Zustand	Neuware