{"product_id":"the-migraine-hotel-9781844715558","title":"The Migraine Hotel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA combination of verse and prose poetry, ‘The Migraine Hotel’ is Luke Kennard’s third collection and very much a sequel to ‘The Harbour Beyond the Movie’. The voices continue to explore the territory opened up by Harbour, at once satiric, stricken, sincere and bitingly sarcastic, combined with a kaleidoscopic range of ways of engaging with a poem as a reader. The prose poems are prose poems in the tradition of Baudelaire, which is to say they read more like grouchy comic monologues with unreliable narrators than prose-verse characterised by excessive lyricism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInventive, academically aware, fearless and hugely enjoyable.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nick Laird * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a considerable intelligence and stylishness in his wry domestication of the beautiful swerves and non-sequiturs of Ashbery's poems, plus a high degree of overt self-consciousness: several poems discuss and undermine their own procedures, or disarm potential criticism. Their main charm, though, is that they are – with their engagingly downbeat, faux-naïve narrators – genuinely funny.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Robert Potts * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as a witty wunderkind in the poetry world, 26-year-old Kennard starts with contemporary cultural slickness and moves brilliantly into the surreal. Truly, a poet to watch\u003c\/p\u003e -- Christina Patterson * The Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Migraine Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e, by Luke Kennard (Salt): Luke Kennard's \u003cem\u003eThe Harbour Beyond the Movie\u003c\/em\u003e was that rare commodity: a poetry collection both excellent and laugh-out-loud funny. His latest offering – in which he considers heartbreak, despair and the pleasures of schadenfreude via his own sui generis brand of didactic humour – doesn't disappoint. Fans will be delighted by the return of Wolf, who this time ventures into the fields of psychotherapy and national identity (\"'Fortunately my mother was Opus Dei and my father a Methodist,' says the wolf. 'Thus, on Tuesdays, I am Catholic in the mornings and Protestant in the afternoons'\").\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sarah Crown * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Friend\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dusty Era\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariations On Tears\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd I Saw\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Neighbours\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Six Times My Heart Broke\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBestiary For The Seven Days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEstate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWolf Nationalist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Stars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePleasure Beach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArmy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWolf on the Couch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrapefruit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChildhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy First Impulse is Always to Take the Bigger Portion, the Unchipped Cup, the Cleaner Glass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePainful Revisions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Forms Of Despair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRepetition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Terrorist, Maybe, With His Children\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Last Days of Advertising\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dog Descends\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAddiction Clinic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Poems For A New Shopping Centre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Sure-Fire Sign\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrombone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMen Made of Words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Sexual Fantasies Of The Inuit Warriors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGravedigger?:?The Movie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771556659543,"sku":"9781844715558","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844715558.jpg?v=1758728261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-migraine-hotel-9781844715558","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}