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My Family and Other Superheroes

Winner of the Costa Poetry Prize 2014

 

Shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2014.

 

My Family and Other Superheroes introduces a vibrant and unique new voice from Wales. The superheroes in question are a motley crew. Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun and a recalcitrant hippo – all leap from these pages and jostle for position, alongside valleys mams, dads and bamps, described with great warmth. Other poems focus on the crammed terraces and abandoned high streets where a working-class and Welsh nationalist politics is hammered out. This is a post-industrial valleys upbringing re-imagined through the prism of pop culture and surrealism. If the author’s subjects have something in common with RS Thomas, or even Terry Street-era Douglas Dunn, his technique and approach owe at least as much to contemporary American poets like James Tate and David Wojahn.

1 in stock

9781781721629 ,
Weight 0.200 kg
Dimensions 200 × 130 × 8 mm
ISBN

9781781721629

Cover

Paperback

Publication Year

2014

Publisher

Seren