Full Description
A combination of verse and prose poetry, 'The Migraine Hotel' is Luke Kennard's third collection and very much a sequel to 'The Harbour Beyond the Movie'. The voices continue to explore the territory opened up by Harbour, at once satiric, stricken, sincere and bitingly sarcastic, combined with a kaleidoscopic range of ways of engaging with a poem as a reader. The prose poems are prose poems in the tradition of Baudelaire, which is to say they read more like grouchy comic monologues with unreliable narrators than prose-verse characterised by excessive lyricism.
Contents
My Friend
The Dusty Era
Variations On Tears
And I Saw
Four Neighbours
The Six Times My Heart Broke
Bestiary For The Seven Days
Estate
Wolf Nationalist
No Stars
Pleasure Beach
Army
Wolf on the Couch
Grapefruit
Childhood
My First Impulse is Always to Take the Bigger Portion, the Unchipped Cup, the Cleaner Glass
The Awakening
Painful Revisions
The Forms Of Despair
Repetition
A Terrorist, Maybe, With His Children
The Last Days of Advertising
A Dog Descends
Addiction Clinic
Five Poems For A New Shopping Centre
A Sure-Fire Sign
Trombone
Men Made of Words
from Sexual Fantasies Of The Inuit Warriors
Spade
Gravedigger?:?The Movie
