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Book SynopsisFrom urban sketches of London and warped love poems to a paean to the Boston Tea Party and a letter to an American in Afghanistan, Metrophobia establishes a poetry that is inventive, quirky and packed with humour.
Trade ReviewThis is a demanding, rewarding, refreshingly iconoclastic and earthy collection of poems for the way we live now. - Poor Rude Lines A searching and resourceful imagination is at work here, seeking new perspectives with vitality and insight. - Penelope Shuttle Leal [is] playful, experimental, questioning of 'poetry' as a specialised, rarefied state enjoyed only by sensitive types, her poems with a touch of theatre and bravura. - George Szirtes These poems are an alternative news broadcast from a young American correspondent abroad in the world. Contained within them are many of the domestic and emotional snippets which CNN will never give you. - Martin Newell
Table of ContentsThis is not a sonnet Little Brother Boston Tea To Afghanistan The Veteran Rapeseed Belgrave Road metrophobia Skyline Directions to X Conversation Fitting into a Gucci Dress The Super-Model Autumn Grilled Cheese I had a dream about you, Dan Bouchard A thing or two you need to know about Lucas and Gabrielle Romance in a Diner What it feels like to miss you Egging Mr Vasey's In Carolina Somethin' Atl Davis Mrs Darling's Kiss Green Slippers The Fire Night after mausam, Govardhan Puja Nivi The Fruit Stand On the Discovery of the Orgasm Estados Unidos Mexicanos Moonshine open-ended Good Morning
