Reckless Paper Birds by John Mccullough
Shortlisted for the Costa 2019 Poetry Award. Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough, ranging across birdlife, Grindr and My Little Pony while also addressing social issues from homelessness to homophobia.
John McCullough has a reputation for crafting lyric poems of the everyday with a surreal twistIn Reckless Paper Birds, the familiar yet strange is rarely more than a stanza away. As if Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems jumped headlong into our 21st century, McCullough's lines sing of Lady Gaga, Instagram and house music.; Ben Wilkinson, The Guardian; A celebration of abundace ... a secular litany of life in its fullness and fragility.; Rob Mackenzie, Poetry London; The vitality of the poems, their nimbleness, their wit and their music combine to mark Reckless Paper Birds as a rare literary phenomenon. The book, for all its undercurrents and complexities, is a frank and militant declaration of joy – gay in a double sense of the word – and should be taken very seriously.; Christopher Reid, Judge of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize
John McCullough's first collection of poems, The Frost Fairs, won the Polari First Book Prize and was a Book of the Year for The Independent. His second, Spacecraft (Penned in the Margins, 2016), was named one of The Guardian's Best Books for Summer and shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize. His latest collection, Reckless Paper Birds (Penned in the Margins, 2019) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908058638 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908058633 |
| Title | Reckless Paper Birds |
| Author | John Mccullough |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penned in the Margins |
| Year published | 2019-05-15 |
| Prizes | Winner of Hawthornden Prize 2020, Short-listed for Costa 2019 Poetry Award 2019 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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