Jug Band Jag by Kit Wright

Jug Band Jag by Kit Wright

Jug Band Jag is a wonderfully spirited bout of poetry-making whose forms and themes are markedly diverse, while the concern for musicality is constant. Kit Wrights vision of the world blends the sharply realistic with a distinctive brand of surrealism.

Poets write closer to their lives than novelists, so when you follow a poet down the years you acquire a (possibly false) sense of proximityI’ve had Hugo Williams and Kit Wright as decades-long companions. Both are witty and lyrical (and very tall), Wright more the balladeer; they are now seventyish, and the bleaknesses of age and mortality are pushing into their latest collections: Williams’s I Knew the Bride (Faber) and Wright’s Ode to Didcot Power Station (Bloodaxe). This makes them even better (and just as companionable).

-- Julian Barnes * TLS (Books of the Year) *

Kit Wright was born in 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent, and has published widely for adults and children. After a scholarship to Oxford, he worked as a lecturer in Canada, was education officer at the Poetry Society from 1970 to 1975, Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1977-79, and subsequently a freelance writer. His poetry titles include The Bear Looked Over the Mountain (Salamander, 1977), Bump-Starting the Hearse (Hutchinson, 1983), Poems 1974-1983 (Hutchinson, 1988), Short Afternoons (Hutchinson, 1989), Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000, including a new collection (Leviathan, 2000; Faber, 2008), Ode to Didcot Power Station (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) and Jug Band Jag (Bloodaxe Books, 2025). A selection of his poems was included in Penguin Modern Poets 1 (second series, 1995). He has won many literary awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, Hawthornden Prize, Heinemann Award and Cholmondeley Award.

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ISBN 13	9781780377636
ISBN 10	1780377630
Title	Jug Band Jag
Author	Kit Wright
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Year published	2025-10-23
Number of pages	96
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