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Bleak but wonderful ... familiar, and of course funny. Alan Bennett

Dark, funny and twisted, but surprisingly tender. A.L. Kennedy

Couples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the nature of co-dependency of two people who want to be together, but at the same time cannot help but push each other away.
The layout of the book is itself a commentary on the phenomenon the poems are placed in their own couples', pairs that face each other across the page. Sometimes they exchange a glance, sometimes they stand side-by-side, staring out into the abyss; only when the book is closed, and they are in darkness, do they truly come together.
Originally published on Valentine's Day 2013, the seven-year itch has brought Michael Stewart back to his old flame for a new edition in 2020; reworking the original poems, and adding a dozen more. The result is an unnervingly perceptive volume, to be shared with your other half' at your own risk you may never look at a couple, or each other, the same way again.

Couples

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      Publisher Valley Press
      Published 30 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9781912436408
      978-1912436408
      ISBN-10 191243640X
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      Fiction Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Bleak but wonderful ... familiar, and of course funny. Alan Bennett

      Dark, funny and twisted, but surprisingly tender. A.L. Kennedy

      Couples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the nature of co-dependency of two people who want to be together, but at the same time cannot help but push each other away.
      The layout of the book is itself a commentary on the phenomenon the poems are placed in their own couples', pairs that face each other across the page. Sometimes they exchange a glance, sometimes they stand side-by-side, staring out into the abyss; only when the book is closed, and they are in darkness, do they truly come together.
      Originally published on Valentine's Day 2013, the seven-year itch has brought Michael Stewart back to his old flame for a new edition in 2020; reworking the original poems, and adding a dozen more. The result is an unnervingly perceptive volume, to be shared with your other half' at your own risk you may never look at a couple, or each other, the same way again.

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