{"product_id":"the-solex-brothers-redux-and-other-prose-poems-9781844715480","title":"The Solex Brothers (Redux): And Other Prose Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, \u003cem\u003eThe Solex Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos, philosophical tracts and grammar. Unlike a toboggan of wolves, \u003cem\u003eThe Solex Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e explores the fate of the individual – albeit a rather feeble individual – and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral absolution in narratives at once Fauvist and Baroque, expunging the twee with a reformist's remorseless vigour; cherishing its influences with a poststructuralist’s vertical rigour; and, at times, chasing its tail with a schoolboy’s reductive snigger. Like a toboggan of wolves who are beginning to regret having set-upon and eaten their driver, the world of “The Solex Brothers” is funny, sad and irretrievably lost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKennard’s imaginative range is constantly awe-inspiring, coupling as it does seeming absurdities with healthy doses of down-to-earthiness to concoct, well, I don’t care to try to name what it concocts, because to name it would spoil my day. Reading “The Esplanade”, which concerns a spy and an assassin, sort of, it occurred to me somewhat belatedly that the voice behind these, um, things (the narrator? Well, maybe) is consistent. It belongs to a participant in what’s going on, someone who is a part of things but somehow adrift, at times very switched on and self-assured, at other times bemused and something of a spectator.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Martin Stannard * Litter Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Solex Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e struck me as probably the most interesting debut of 2005 ... original and startlingly imaginative lyrical pyrotechnics.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nathan Thompson * Shearsman Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is a talent to watch out for. He's got it. Let's hope he doesn't lose it, either to the world of performance cliché or the mainstream's emasculating embrace.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tim Allen * Terrible Work *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Solex Brothers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo a Wolf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLog Cabin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScarecrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Wolf’s Career\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Esplanade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771556725079,"sku":"9781844715480","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844715480.jpg?v=1758728259","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-solex-brothers-redux-and-other-prose-poems-9781844715480","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}