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Shoulder Tap by Maurice Riordan

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Shoulder Tap

Author
Maurice Riordan
Narrator
Maurice Riordan
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Publish Date
19 October 2021
Run Time
1 hour 17 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets
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Throughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is unpredictable and thrilling, at once a dark art and an illumination of unease and loss and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting songs of a mutable self alongside poignant elegies, interior journeys and subtle (and not so subtle) ripostes to the legacy of Trumpism - while elsewhere encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Laforgue. These poems twinkle with mischief and humour, making for a pungent and haunting read. Riordan - a poet whose strong, rippling influence is felt by all in his wake - affirms his reputation at the forefront of contemporary poetry.

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Author
Maurice Riordan
Narrator
Maurice Riordan
Duration
1 hour 17 minutes
Release Date
19 October 2021
ISBN
9780571367146
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Genre
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets

Synopsis

Throughout the poems in Shoulder Tap, with their roaming sense of first-person, there is depth at work where the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is thrilling and unpredictable, at once a dark art and an illumination of behaviour and unease and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting songs of a mutable self alongside poignant elegies, interior journeys and subtle (and not so subtle) ripostes to the legacy of Trumpism - while encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Laforgue. These poems shimmer with mischief and twinkling humour, making for a pungent and haunting read. Here, Riordan - a poet whose strong, rippling influence is felt by all in his wake - affirms his reputation at the forefront of contemporary poetry.

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