We just received stock of the beautiful new poetry collection by the wonderful Max Porter
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| It’s always a significant moment when something new from Max Porter graces our shelves. Yesterday we unpacked a rich haul of copies of All Of This Unreal Time, which is the poetic text that formed the basis for a film collaboration with Cillian Murphy (who has also provided an introduction for the book). The edition has been beautifully published by Rough Trade Books in a small format, with rounded edges and textured card for the cover. It’s a book to read immediately in one gulp, or to put in a coat pocket and read on a bench in the middle of a walk (bookseller’s serving suggestions). |
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| ‘What would you say if you had one ideal chance to speak yourself, to make a language that spoke across time to those you have loved, to those you have wronged, to all those countless human and non-human lives that have intersected and impacted on yours, with or without your knowledge? Max Porter’s All of This Unreal Time takes this idea—the poetic concept of ‘perfect speech’—and turns it into a wild, psycholo-delic apology rant. Moving with Porter’s peerless linguistic skill between a single speaker’s self-lacerating ‘apology’ to an excavation of family trauma, late-capitalist guilt and rage and the shame that attends—that must attend—modern masculinity. All this is, of course, handled with the usual slipperiness and smarts—where nothing is quite as it seems, pregnant with its opposite, a shape-shifting tour-de-force of voice and concept from our most exciting contemporary writer.’ |
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