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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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Summary |
Suzannah Evans' debut collection Near Future is doom-pop-poetry with an apocalyptic edge, a darkly humorous journey through sci-fi lullabies and northern mysteries. This is a future simulation stripped of the space-age gloss of progression - one where the robots have gone rogue and the hopes of a new millennium are malfunctioning; a skewed yet oddly familiar world gone uncannily wrong. These playful, sharp, poems are also about more than dystopias and five types of possible apocalypse - in looking at the worst-case scenarios, Evans comes closer to the bigger narrative; universal truths of change, whether man-made or natural, preventable of inevitable, and the uncertain business of human existence where 'there are disasters that you cannot prepare yourself for'. Evans brings a distinctive, skilful and wonderfully peculiar roving eye to our restless and unpredictable times. |
Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Epigraph; A Contingency Plan; The Doomer's Daughter; Helpline; The Handover; Roboblackbird; Summer with Robobees; The Dark Museum; We just passed on the street; This is The End; The End of the End of the World; Sometimes in your own head; Wholly Communion; Real Time; The New Tenants; The Law of Attraction; The New Curriculum; Future Cities; 1. The Censored City; 2. The Floating City; 3. The Plug-In City; This is England's greenest city; This morning the walls; The Russian Woodpecker; Reconstructing the Monument; Underground in the new Meanwood |
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The TasteGuided Tour; Wyre; Hawkbatch; Callow Hill; Pipeline; Deer Museum; Button Oak; Trevor on the Long Mynd; About the Dog; Naming the Hill; Coastal Erosion; Extinct Scents; De-Extinction; Skies Recorded by the Cyanometer; The Fatbergs; The Humans and the Starlings; Re-wilding; Craters; Letter into Eternity; The Last Poet-in-Residence; Acknowledgements; About the author & this book |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Poetry, Modern -- 21st century.
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Poetry, Modern. |
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21st century |
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Poets, English -- 21st century.
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Poets, English. |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Print version: Evans, Suzannah, 1983- Near future. Rugby (England) : Nine Arches Press, 2018 1911027468 9781911027461 (OCoLC)1035511029 |
ISBN |
9781911027645 (electronic book) |
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1911027646 (electronic book) |
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9781911027461 |
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1911027468 |
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