My family and other superheroes / Jonathan Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Jonathan, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welsh poetry--21st century.

Welsh poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Bridgend : Seren, 2014.

Summary:

My Family and Other Superheroes introduces a vibrant and unique new voice from Wales. The superheroes in question are a motley crew. Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Mary McFly, a bicycling nun and a recalcitrant hippo - all leap from these pages and jostle for position, alongside Valleys mams, dads and bamps, described with great warmth. Other poems focus on the crammed terraces and abandoned high streets where a working-class and Welsh nationalist politics is hammered out. This is a post-industrial Valleys upbringing re-imagined through the prism of pop culture and surrealism. Book jacket.

Contents:

1

My Family in a Human Pyramid 9

Evel Knievel Jumps Over my Family 10

Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren in Crumlin for the Filming of Arabesque, June 1965 11

The Voice in which my Mother Read to Me 12

The Death of Doc Emmett Brown in Back to the Future 13

Half-time, Wales vs. Germany, Cardiff Arms Park, 1991 14

How to Renovate a Morris Minor 16

Bamp 17

Building my Grandfather 18

Lance Corporal Arthur Edwards (1900-1916) 19

My Uncle Walks to Work, 1962 20

2

Anatomy 23

View of Valleys Village from a Hill 24

View of Valleys High Street through a Café Window 25

Colliery Row 26

USA Family Kebab House, Merthyr Tydfil 28

Owen Jones 29

Raskolnikov in Ebbw Vale 30

X16 31

Chartist Mural, John Frost Square, Newport 32

Capel Celyn 33

In John F. Kennedy International Airport 34

FA Cup Winners on Open Top Bus Tour of my Village 36

3

Girl 39

Welsh National Costume 40

Us 41

The Doll 42

Decree Nisi 43

Jack-in-the-Box 44

The Bloke in the Coffee Shop 45

Aquafit 50

4

Bookcase Thrown through Third Floor Window 53

Restaurant where I am the Maître d' and the Chef is my Unconscious 54

Rilkc at War 55

Seal 56

The Hippo 57

Flamingos 58

Cheerleaders 59

Bouncers 60

Nun on a Bicycle 61

The Bloke Selling Talk Talk in the Arcade 62

Starbucks Name Tag Says Rhian 63

The Girls on the Make-up Counter 64

Karaoke 65

Brothers 66

The Boy with the Pump-action Water Pistol 67

The Performance 63

Holiday 70

On the Overpass 71.

ISBN:

9781781721629

1781721629

OCLC:

870426383