The Call of the Clerihew - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1999674219 ISBN 13 : 9781999674212

Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2019

Synopsis

Sometimes described as the literate cousin of the Limerick, the Clerihew has attracted and inspired writers from GK Chesterton and Gavin Ewart to Craig Brown. WH Auden once wrote an entire book of Clerihews. Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), the Clerihew is a childish anti-panegyric, flat-footed, Hudibrastic, eponymous quatrains designed to lower the tone and cut everyone down to size. The Call of the Clerihew brings together fifty contemporary exponents of this ridiculous form, including Ian Duhig, WN Herbert, Jacqueline Saphra, Martin Rowson, Katy Evans-Bush, Michael Rosen and Tim Turnbull, cocking a snook at the great and the good, the important and the self-important, the religious and the royal, despots and detectives, poets, philosophers and politicians.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

George Szirtes has published several books of poetry as well as of translated poetry and fiction. Since his TS Eliot Prize-winning Reel (2004) he has published four more collections including Collected and New Poems (2008). He has also translated poetry and fiction from the Hungarian.

Andy Jackson has edited several anthologies, including Split Screen for Red Squirrel Press, and, with WN Herbert, New Boots and Pantisocracies (also
published by Smokestack). He is also the author of several poetry collections, including A Beginner’s Guide to Cheating.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smokestack Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1999674219
• ISBN 13: 9781999674212
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Éditeur: Szirtes George, Jackson Andy
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• Personne responsable: non disponible