Telling Tales - Nominiert: The Ted Hughes Prize, 2014
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| Verlag | Canongate Books |
| Auflage | 2015 |
| Seiten | 144 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,6 x 1,0 cm |
| Gewicht | 112 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1782111573 |
| EAN | 9781782111573 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78211157UA |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015
Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,
Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,
Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix
From below-the-belt base to the topnotch;
I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch
when the tales overrun, run offensive,
or run clean out of steam, they're authentic
and we're keeping it real, reminisce this:
Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business.
In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.
Celebrating Chaucer's Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi's newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most sign ificant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.
Rezension:
The liveliest versions of Chaucer you're likely to read - every page a virtuoso performance of language, character and story SIMON ARMITAGE
