Tooting Idyll by Val Warner
This work includes two sequences, both set in London. The title poem in the collection focuses on a south London terraced house in Tooting Bec inhabited by two male lovers (one a C.O., the other to become a soldier) coping with the world in 1939 and the threat of war. In 1984 the same house is occupied by a man and a woman with an adopted child and another adoption fixed. The fate of the wartime lovers is implicit in the second part; the future of the 1980s couple is made explicit in the third, from the perspective of a female friend after the VE commemoration of 1995. "Mary Chay", the second sequence, focuses on a murder in Victoria, seen from many viewpoints (including those of the police, forensic laboratory staff, suspects, neighbours, witnesses, passers-by, a shop assistant, and a cross-dressing man who encounters the victim on her last day).
Tristan Corbiere was a 19th-century French poet and the author of Les Amours Jaunes. Val Warner is the author of Before Lunch and Under the Penthouse and the editor of The Collected Poems and Prose of Charlotte Mew. She is the recipient of a Gregory Award, a former creative writing fellow at the University College of Swansea, and a former writer in residence at the University of Dundee.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857543339 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857543335 |
| Title | Tooting Idyll |
| Author | Val Warner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1998-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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