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Twitters for a Lark: Poetry of the European Union of Imaginary Authors
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781848615656
Publisher: Summertime Pub
Published: Oct 27 2017
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
If the right poets for the times don't exist, then they have to be invented.
Working in collaboration with a team of real writers, Robert Sheppard has created a lively and entertaining anthology of fictional European poets. There is no resultant 'Europoem', but a variety of styles that reflects the collaborative nature of the poems' production, the richness of a continent. The works range from the comedic to the political, from the imaginatively sincere to the faux-autobiographical, from traditional lyricism to the experimental. Accompanied by biographical notes, the poets grow in vividness until they seem to possess lives of their own.
This collection marks a continuation of the work Sheppard ventriloquised through his creation, the fictional bilingual Belgian poet RenE Van Valckenborch, in A Translated Man. Although devised before the neologism 'Brexit' was spat across the bitter political divide, this sample of 28 poets of the EUOIA (European Union of Imaginary Authors) takes on new meanings in our contemporary world that is far from fictive, 'fake news' or not.
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