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.
ISBN: | 9781844715558 |
Publication date: | 28th April 2009 |
Author: | Luke Kennard |
Publisher: | Salt an imprint of Salt Publishing Limited |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 96 pages |
Series: | Salt Modern Poets |
Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |