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A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese

ISBN-13: 9781857545272
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Jeremy Over
Price: AUD $17.99
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Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
Local release date: 29/10/2001
Format: Paperback (215.00mm X 135.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 95g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: Jeremy Over's poetry creates a world of delight and amazement; in the face of language, love and an elusive reality which seems eternally beyond the realm of rational control. His cornucopia spills out pineapples, watermelons, unstitched shoes and flocks of birds from the baked remains of the waterlogged family bible. He dares to glance down from vertiginous perspectives and the laughter his poems produce is bright and innocent. There is nothing reductive in his ironies. He draws on Neruda, Stevens, Traki and more, but readers will feel in his work the pressure of the Lorca of Poeta en Nueva York and the tonalities of Laforgue. The poems rarely break entirely from a narrative core, yet they challenge the current orthodoxy of poetry as storytelling on every level. His is an important new voice and this is a glittering first collection.; Jeremy Over was born in Leeds, and grew up there and in Bedford. He studied at Leeds University and now lives with his family in Billericay, Essex. He works in London for the Inland Revenue. He was first published in New Poetries II, (Carcanet, 1999).; "It's good to lose something you don't really need every now and then; an item of clothing, some hair, a tooth, a piece of one's mind. A tree of course, knows this. Once we left the family bible out on the lawn overnight to soak up the late summer dew, and the next day we kneaded the bloated black pulp and put in the oven to bake And when the door opened... a cinema of black birds... from 'Divertimento'; Google Preview content