The Toll

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9.99
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Luke Wright
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Paperback
publisher: 
Penned in the Margins
published_date: 
01/01/2017
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9781908058423
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Poetry > Individual poets
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Luke Wright|Paperback|Penned in the Margins|01/01/2017
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9781908058423
Book Description: 
An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete; and a young woman dreams of leaving home. Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his stunning new collection, discover a country riven by inequality and corruption but sustained by a surreal, gallow's humour. The Toll combines the elegaic with the anarchic, placing uproarious satire cheek-by-jowl with wild experiments in form and touching poems of parenthood. In this mature follow-up to his best-selling debut, Mondeo Man, Wright captures the strain of austerity Britain, speaking truth to power and registering the toll it takes on us all.

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