Talking Dead
$27.69
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2015
Summary
The first book in eight years from ‘the bard of the bawdy’
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize
Like Neil Rollinson’s earlier books, Talking Dead is a refreshment of the senses—lifting the lid on the human condition in a heartfelt celebration of the act of being, whether in moments of love or mortality, sex or feasting.
In the central sequence of the book—a meditation on the space between life and death—the dead speak of their final earthly moments with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224097291 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0224097296 |
| Author: | Neil Rollinson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 88g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 133mm x 8mm |
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Critics Review
A hugely accessible book of fundamentally human poems.
A hugely accessible book of fundamentally human poems. – Jade Craddock * Nudge *
A hugely accessible book of fundamentally human poems. – Jade Craddock * Nudge *
Poems of extraordinary delicacy and transcendence. – Suzi Feay * Independent on Sunday *
As lucid and direct as anything being written today… Every word is subordinated to its purpose: not the display but a mastery of the writing self… Rollinson has an impeccable ear. – Fiona Sampson * New Statesman *
Talking Dead is an unusual and interesting collection of poems… Rollinson does it with a wry grit, honest earthiness and often with quite the wicked sense of humour. The language can be as fruity as the subject matter, some poems are sensual and some shocking, together they form a quite eclectic mix. I laughed and I gasped as I read through. One of the things that I most enjoyed about the collection was how down to earth it was. Whilst Rollinson’s poetry is vivid, lyrical and beautiful it isn’t flowery. – Simon Savidge * Savidge Reads *
About The Author
Neil Rollinson
Neil Rollinson is the author of four poetry collections: A Spillage of Mercury (1996), Spanish Fly (2001), Demolition (2007), and Talking Dead (2015). He won the National Poetry Competition in 1997, received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2005, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize for Talking Dead. The Dead Don’t Bleed is his debut novel, and won the Deborah Rogers Award for previously unpublished prose writers in 2023.
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