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Playing Solitaire for Money: (Salt Modern Poets)

Playing Solitaire for Money: (Salt Modern Poets)


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About the Book

“Playing Solitaire for Money” is a collection of lyric poems, which are contemporary in form and subject. It’s roughly split into three types of poems. The first third are poems about our globalised experience – seeing us as small parts in “a colossal machine”, bit part players in the complexities of modern society. The poems take our everyday experiences and distil them into somewhat surreal, but always truthful scenarios. The middle poems in the collection are more personal – observations on modern life, or ruminations on cinema or fiction. The last few poems are more playful – stepping out into the hidden landscapes on the edge of the city, or conjuring up scenes of middle-class absurdity. Yet there is nothing mundane in these poems. A cup of coffee in a high street chain is a chance to imagine the “impossible narratives” of the “coffee girl” serving the author; getting lost in a maze becomes a question about poetry’s use of metaphor; and, in the poem from which the title line comes, a person’s internal manias become a real life “monster”, that sits on it’s own, “playing solitaire for money.” These two dozen poems are never slight, and always repay re-reading, almost metaphysical in their warping of our recognisable realities.

Table of Contents:
Playing Solitaire for Money The Panic My Monster Drama A Colossal Machine Merit in Connection Is it just me or is everything? Frontier The Death of the Grand Gesture 1983 Late Love Bottle Sky Cinema The Maze Coffee Girls Love and Death in the American Novel Clues The Borrowers Over and Back Dog Clouds A Problem with Genre At the Vegan Cafe Festival Season Some Invented Evening I, Conservationist

About the Author :
Adrian Slatcher was born in Walsall in 1967 and grew up in Norton Canes, Staffordshire. He studied English in Lancaster and Creative Writing in Manchester where he currently lives. He works as a project manager primarily helping the arts to understand technology. He writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction and regularly blogs about literary matters at artoffiction.blogspot.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844717996
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Salt Publishing
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Series Title: Salt Modern Poets
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1844717992
  • Publisher Date: 15 Aug 2010
  • Binding: Pamphlet
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 3 mm


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