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Fur Coats in Tahiti Jeremy Over

Fur Coats in Tahiti By Jeremy Over

Fur Coats in Tahiti by Jeremy Over


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Summary

A wildly diverse new collection from Jeremy Over.

Fur Coats in Tahiti Summary

Fur Coats in Tahiti by Jeremy Over

Shortlisted for the 2020 Wales Poetry Book of the Year. Fur Coats in Tahiti is a cocktail of borrowed forms and modes from Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, the OuLiPo, the Vienna Group and the New York school. There are scissor snips and slips of the tongue and eye in a sequence of word and image compositions derived from an Edwardian illustrated dictionary. Elsewhere there are childlike, and plain childish, oral and aural pleasures to be had with bananas, cherries and Slobodan Zivojinovic; tahini and Petroc Trelawny. The book begins with 'O', an openmouthed astonishment at nativity, and ends, not with Z but, in the hope of further connection, with the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet: '&'.

Fur Coats in Tahiti Reviews

'These poems rollick as they explore relationships between sound and sense, interweave the surreal and the mundane, and conduct whimsical, unpredictable journeys. The work teems with intelligence and delight.' - Carrie Etter; 'Over's is a poetry of endless curiosity and intellectual generosity... The long poems and sequences capture a quality of musical improvisation, but the attention is pulled back, again and again, by unexpected lyrical detail; as if distraction (by beauty, by stupidity, by wonder) were the only true method. And it is.' - Luke Kennard; 'Joyous panoplies of alphabets warble, blossom and assemble into word songs made simultaneously Stately and playful... Slip on this luxurious garment of a book where the language weather is always perfect.' - Lee Ann Brown

About Jeremy Over

Jeremy Over was born in Leeds in 1961. His poetry was first published in New Poetries II. There followed two Carcanet collections, A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese and Deceiving Wild Creatures. He currently lives on a hill near Llanidloes in the middle of Wales.

Additional information

GOR010018215
9781784107635
1784107638
Fur Coats in Tahiti by Jeremy Over
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Carcanet Press Ltd
20190725
128
Short-listed for The Wales Poetry Book of the Year 2020
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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