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The Breakfast Machine
Helen Ivory
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Description for The Breakfast Machine
Paperback. Helen Ivory is a popular poet on the readings circuit in Britain. "The Breakfast Machine" is her third collection from Bloodaxe. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 110.
Inside "The Breakfast Machine" a chicken on squeaky tin legs is cooking you eggs and a squirrel plays tape-recorded birdsong high up in a tree. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse high-tail it into town as cowboys, and the fate of the world is decided by a game of cards. "The Breakfast Machine" is driven by the transformations of fairytale where the dark corners of childhood are explored and found to be alive and well in offices, kitchens and hen-houses. There is more than a hint of East European darkness in Helen Ivory's third collection, which sits more comfortably alongside the ... Read more
Inside "The Breakfast Machine" a chicken on squeaky tin legs is cooking you eggs and a squirrel plays tape-recorded birdsong high up in a tree. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse high-tail it into town as cowboys, and the fate of the world is decided by a game of cards. "The Breakfast Machine" is driven by the transformations of fairytale where the dark corners of childhood are explored and found to be alive and well in offices, kitchens and hen-houses. There is more than a hint of East European darkness in Helen Ivory's third collection, which sits more comfortably alongside the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
109g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248734
SKU
V9781852248734
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99-2
About Helen Ivory
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears, and is a lecturer for the UEA/National Centre for Writing online creative writing programme. She has published five collections with Bloodaxe Books: The Double Life of Clocks (2002), The Dog in the Sky (2006), The Breakfast Machine (2010), Waiting for Bluebeard (2013) and The ... Read more
Reviews for The Breakfast Machine
Helen Ivory creates a troubled yet beguiling world rich in irony and disquiet. She possesses a strongly-grounded narrative voice which, combined with her dextrous transformative takes both on reality and on what lies beyond reality's surface, puts one in mind of the darker side of Stevie Smith who said that poetry 'is a strong explosion in the sky'. The Breakfast ... Read more