Couples

Couples
Michael Stewart
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Paperback
h203 x 133mm - 48pg
30 Jan 2020 UK
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9781912436408
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First published on Valentine' s Day 2013, Couples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the nature of co-dependency - of two people who want to be together, but at the same time cannot help but push each other away. Now, the seven-year itch has brought Michael Stewart back to this subject for a new edition; revisiting and rethinking the original poems, and adding a dozen more. The layout of the book is itself a commentary on the phenomenon - the poems are placed in their own ' couples' , pairs that face each other across the page. Sometimes they exchange a glance, sometimes they stand side-by-side, staring out into the abyss; only when the book is closed, and they are in darkness, do they truly come together.
"Bleak but wonderful . . . familiar, and of course funny. " Alan Bennett "Dark, funny and twisted, but surprisingly tender. " A. L. Kennedy
Michael Stewart was born in Salford in 1971, and now lives in Bradford. He is head of Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of three novels, including King Crow, winner of the 2011 Not the Booker Prize, Cafe Assassin and Ill Will, as well as a collection of short stories, Mr Jolly, which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2017. He has also written several audio dramas for BBC Radio 4, and other scripts for stage and screen. Find him on Twitter @headspam.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781912436408
Published: 30 Jan 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Valley Press
Publisher: Valley Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 133mm
Spine: 4mm
Pages: 48

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