Semmens’ startling new collection is a sequence of surreal fantasies in which famous figures from (mostly) the past – sometimes singly, sometimes in unlikely pairings – make incongruous, anachronistic appearances in modern settings and situations, or in episodes from times not their own. Incongruous and laugh-out-loud funny, the poems delight the reader, yet much darker elements are at play.
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Aidan Semmens, author of five poetry collections, A Stone Dog (2011), The Book of Isaac (2013), Uncertain Measures (2014), Life Has Become More Cheerful (2017) and There Will Be Singing (2020) has been described by Simon Smith, former chief librarian at the Poetry Library, as ‘one of our more ambitious and accomplished poets.’
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