The Slasher and the Vampire as Role Models (Paperback)

Paperback. A recipient of an Eric Gregory Award as a young poet, Ian Gregsons debut collection, Call Centre Love Song went on to be shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Described by Carol Rumens as combining a postmodernists sense of things being various with a traditionalists concern for shape and completeness, Gregsons work is formally diverse, eminently accessible and packed with wit, but this is never glib or throw-away. There is deep commentary going on in these poems, on how we make and break connections, on the possibilities and limits of language and perception. Brilliant, often funny, frequently poignant and always timely, The Slasher and the Vampire as Role Models, is a new and collected that shows Gregson at the height of his linguistic dexterity as poet with something real to say.Gregsons work is characterised by a belief that poetry should include and incorporate modern experience and not simply cordon off a special lyric arena where the world stops and poetry begins. Patrick McGuinness New and selected poetry from a controversial but impossible to ignore poet. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…