Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese
Jeremy Over
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Description for Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese
Paperback. A first collection from Jeremy Over in which he manages to retain a narrative core, yet challenge the current orthodoxy of poetry as storytelling on every level. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 94.
Edward Lear set out to administer mirth to thousands. Jeremy Over is an heir of the nonsense tradition, genially assaulting everything that "appears" to be fixed and serious. His poems celebrate surprise and synergy, discovering new forms of order in the riotous disorder of the world. Anarchic pleasures: he makes mischief, running words off their expected tracks until they come to rest in new postures, pleasures, meanings. The book opens in Lorca's New York and ends on the road to John Clare's Essex. Nostalgia for home, for a lost time and place shadow the collection, as does an undertone of ... Read more
Edward Lear set out to administer mirth to thousands. Jeremy Over is an heir of the nonsense tradition, genially assaulting everything that "appears" to be fixed and serious. His poems celebrate surprise and synergy, discovering new forms of order in the riotous disorder of the world. Anarchic pleasures: he makes mischief, running words off their expected tracks until they come to rest in new postures, pleasures, meanings. The book opens in Lorca's New York and ends on the road to John Clare's Essex. Nostalgia for home, for a lost time and place shadow the collection, as does an undertone of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857545272
SKU
V9781857545272
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-18
About Jeremy Over
Jeremy Over was born in Leeds, and grew up there and in Bedford. He studied at Leeds University and now lives with his family in Billericay, Essex. He works in London for the Inland Revenue. He was first published in New Poetries II, (Carcanet, 1999).
Reviews for Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese
"It's good to lose something you don't really need every now and then; an item of clothing, some hair, a tooth, a piece of one's mind. A tree of course, knows this. Once we left the family bible out on the lawn overnight to soak up the late summer dew, and the next day we kneaded the bloated black pulp ... Read more