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Book SynopsisMono-browed cousins, clandestine paperboys, murderous action heroes and Swiss euthanasia clinics jostle for position in Ross Sutherland's intelligent and wildly entertaining debut collection of poetry.
Trade ReviewIn his free-wheeling lyricism, caustic wit and brilliantly surreal turn of image, Sutherland is a truly contemporary original. His poetry rejuvenates techniques as disparate as collage, memoir, sound experiment and formal appropriation in vigorous but finely wrought lines. Refreshingly fearless and bleakly funny, Things To Do Before You Leave Town collects works that shock and delight in performance but reveal their true depth on the page. - Luke Kennard Ross Sutherland's poetry approaches the epic; a kind of epic on a human scale. If he were a piece of furniture, he would be an elegant high stool that felt uncomfortable and stylish at the same time. - Ian McMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3
Table of ContentsThe Message Things To Do Before You Leave Town Jean-Claude Van Damme The Family Blessing My Curse When Paperboys Roamed the Earth Funeral Song Logon Autopsy Invitation to a Search Party Critical Praise for My Last Relationship Scotch Corner Casino Exit Two Moons for Mongs The Three Stigmata of Pac-Man By The Time You Read This, I Will Be In Switzerland The School Counsellor Something Detonates Nephelococcygia If Hitler Experiment to Determine the Existence of Love A Second Opinion Last Dance Poet in Residence for a Theatre in Liquidation Return to a Compact Pastoral Settlement Ross Gordon Sutherland (anag.)
