The Incomplete Tim Key - Couverture souple

Key, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782116796 ISBN 13 : 9781782116790

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a PAPERBACK BOOK. And it is ram-jammed full of poems by KEY. Originally it was conceived and sold as a hardback book. That was approximately three years ago, but increasingly KEY has dreamt of a leaner, more manageable incarnation. KEY hates hardbacks, always has. If you have ever been lucky enough to ogle his bookshelves you'll have seen that he only has thirty hardbacks all told. He has a Bible, a dictionary, a Viz annual, a book of Mike Atherton's collected cricket columns, and twenty-five copies of his own hardback. More and more he has agitated for that brute to be superseded by something more chic; a slimmer, more athletic version that one can slide into a pocket or down a rugby sock at its owner's convenience. And now here it is.

Within its featherweight pages you will find the vast majority of the same poems as you'll find in its unwieldy predecessor. Poems skewering such thorny issues as sex, pancakes, Serbs and vodka. But, in order to drum up renewed interest, KEY has also added a new poem. And there are also seven new introductions. And KEY has also been allowed to waddle round the text with his Lamy fountain pen, altering and updating. Improving. Making everything just so. For this: THE PAPERBACK.

Revue de presse

"Key locates the spot where poetry, comedy and art intersect, picnics there pleasurably, then takes a c*** on it" (ADAM BUXTON)

"I am jealous of my friend Tim Key. He has one of the funniest, smartest comic minds in the country. If women start finding him attractive I will hang myself" (STEPHEN MERCHANT)

"Renders all other poetry collections redundant, which they were anyway" (CHARLIE BROOKER)

"If there's a funnier book of poems published this year, then we will eat all the hats in the Dazed fashion cupboard. ... [Key] is one of those rare and blessed people who seem almost biologically incapable of doing anything that isn't completely hilarious. ... a total comic masterpiece from a total comic genius" (Dazed and Confused) --Stephen Merchant

"Key is a brilliantly intelligent comic. His poems are hugely skilful, and often funnier in five lines than many comedians can manage to be in an hour on stage" (The List) --The List

"He's a genius plain and simple" (Time Out) --Time Out

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782116796
• ISBN 13: 9781782116790
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336