Numbered Boxes by Pete Beader
Numbered Boxes is a journey through the stanzas of school days, family, work addiction, heartbreak and back into school as a teacher. Much of the book was written while Pete was a full time poetry teacher in a secondary school in East London, as part of a world first pilot project, the Spoken Word Education Programme. Many of the poems present formats that invite young poets to tell their story. The result is an edifice filled with confessions on his own youth, and the continued troubles of adulthood. The rooms we inhabit make up the story of our lives. They are all connected, sometimes as points of intense isolation. What walls are built around our minds by our past, present and futures? The book opens the lid on containers built by institutions and those harder to unpack, the ones built by ourselves. The final section of the book breaks free from the shadows of these confines and escapes into the debauchery of mid-summer, drawing on a body of work written while Pete was Glastonbury poet in residence, 2015. Numbered boxes channels with energy and wit of his stage poetry to a body of lyric, narrative and comically surreal poetry, crafted to deliver on the page.
"There is such a hard-won elegance to Bearder's poetryIn the depths of unrequited affection, of the ennui of a nondescript day, he finds a way of bringing experience to new life through linguistic innovation, finding the joy in the everyday, the lyrical beauty in a shared joint, a turning away from status updates and a folded, private life of the mind. He looks outwards, defiantly and assuredly. His work has all the energy and promise of 'the opening remarks of spring' and, line by line, poem by poem, it delivers." Luke Kennard "From lost loves buried in urban marshlands to the revolutionary force of spring, Peter Bearder delivers some sharp, witty and honest observations. Plus a comprehensive list of absolutely everything that happened at Glastonbury 2015." Mark Gwynn Jones "This poetry is activism with heart and the heart is the centre of this beautiful book. A true voice for this generation and the next" Salena Godden
Peter Bearder (also known as Pete the Temp) is a writer, poet and activist who approaches language like a protester approaches the police lines; with fury and passion and conviction. He has a confidence and vulnerability both needed to succeed in today's busy, loud world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781909136908 |
| ISBN 10 | 1909136905 |
| Title | Numbered Boxes |
| Author | Peter Bearder |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Burning Eye Books |
| Year published | 2016-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 100 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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