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Near future / Suzannah Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Suzannah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (62 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Rugby, England : Nine Arches Press, 2018.
- 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; this is 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
- The Taste
- Guided 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781911027645
- 1911027646
- OCLC:
- 1059450972
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