A Few Interiors by Rowland Bagnall

A Few Interiors by Rowland Bagnall

A Few Interiors is the debut collection from an alumnus of Carcanet's New Poetries series, and a recent favourite in the pages of PN Review. Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things--movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms--and seeing or not seeing the frames that hold them: windows, screens, fields of vision. The poems play with the fixity of those frames, threatening to go beyond them, blurring the distinction between inside and out, interior and exterior.Full of playful glitches and malfunctions, this is a poetry of misses and near-misses, distortions and uncertainties. The poems capture a feeling of d j vu, a sense of something not quite right, out of place, though hard to put your finger on. They are filled with pop-cultural references and registers. Frequently funny and even more frequently fun, Bagnall's poems cut across continents, memories, dreams, and rooms.

`These poems move from memory to disaster to artwork to movie to prayer in an uncannily frictionless manner… a beautiful and eerie book’ - Oli Hazzard; `I frequently laughed, I re-read poems out loud, I went outside and read them again. And what’s going to keep me doing so indefinitely is the poet’s defiant and hard-won sense of wonder.’ - Luke Kennard

Rowland Bagnall was born in Oxfordshire in 1992. He studied English at St John’s College, Oxford, and completed an MPhil in American Literature at the University of Cambridge. His poetry and reviews have appeared in various publications, including Poetry London, the Los Angeles Review of Books and New Poetries VII (Carcanet). He lives and works in Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9781784107352
ISBN 10	1784107352
Title	A Few Interiors
Author	Rowland Bagnall
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	2019-05-30
Number of pages	64
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