Overview
Step through the door and discover Big Bumperton on his bicycle, Mrs. Beltinska in her bath, Monsieur P. on holiday, a transfixed girl in blue jeans, two lascivious figs, and a god who wanders shopping arcades. Drawing on avant-garde and traditional influences, this collection of poetry maps a surreal hinterland where the dark humor of absurdity lies in wait. At times comic, political, satirical, and erotic, this compilation is stocked with curiosities, jokes, and horrors.Reviews
"It was about time for somebody to be channelling Eliot, maybe Stevens, Laforgue, and the Metaphysicals to such clashing effect: 'bright as a seedsman’s packet,' with unexpected timbres and sonorities sabotaged by glockenspiel accents. Pindar is just right for the job." —John Ashbery, author, John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1956–1987Author Biography
Ian Pindar is a freelance writer, an editor, and a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Joyce and a former editor at J. M. Dent, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and at Harvill Press.
