Heat Wave by Julian Stannard

Heat Wave by Julian Stannard

Heat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret,‘What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!’ If a cabaret is full of high jinks it can also land punches – truth can be masked by the burlesque and the grotesque: ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’. Luke Kennard has said of Stannard’s writing, ‘I know of few other poets who can write of cruelty, hysteria and disappointment with such levity and grace.’ Will Eaves speaks of a ‘comic vitality’. Heat Wave seeks to unsettle and wrong-foot; it refuses to adopt a sententious or holier than thou attitudes regarding the many crises which confront us. The poems subvert as well as entertain. Critics have noted ‘a tonal control and simultaneous considerations of matters mordant and gleeful.’ The reader might weep and laugh on the same page. The lyrical and the demotic might walk hand in hand.

This is a brilliant collection, endlessly rich, strange and funny, blessed with a unique voice that is both instantly unmistakable, and yet capable of boundless elasticityLocked down on Brexit Island, Heat Wave is the most perfectly unreliable companion anyone could wish for.

-- Alan Bilton * Ambit Magazine *

Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of my Brother is Julian Stannard’s ninth collection. He is a Reader in English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester. He taught at the university of Genoa for ten years. He is the author of Sottoripa: Genoese Poems (2018), a bilingual collection. He is a Hawthornden and Bogliasco Fellow. His poetry has been shortlisted for the Forward and he has been awarded the International Troubadour Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781784632182
ISBN 10	178463218X
Title	Heat Wave
Author	Julian Stannard
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2020-09-15
Number of pages	112
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