Bloodshot Monochrome
Poems

Bloodshot Monochrome: Poems by Patience Agbabi (Paperback) (ISBN: 9781847671530)

Offers a snapshot of twenty-first-century Britain. This book features the sonnet, and covers various subjects ranging from love to sex, family to race and from writing to film noir.

This collection is a glorious snapshot of twenty-first-century Britain. Playing with the ultimate poetic form, the sonnet, Agbabi twists and reinvents it, approaching subjects ranging from love to sex, family to race and from writing to film noir.Following is an extract from the book: 'I was twelve, as in the twelve-bar blues, sick for the Southeast, marooned on the North Wales coast. A crotchet, my tongue craving the music of Welsh, Scouse or Mancs. Entering the outpost of Colwyn Bay pier, midsummer, noon, nightclub for those of us with the deep ache of adolescence, when I heard that tune, named it in one. Soul. My heart was break dancing on the road to Wigan Casino, northern soul mecca where transatlantic bass beat blacker than blue in glittering mono. Then back, via Southport, Rhyl, to the time, place, I bit the Big Apple. Black, impatient, young. A string of pips exploding on my tongue.'

 

ISBN	1847671535
ISBN13	9781847671530
Publisher	Canongate Books Ltd
Format	Paperback
Publication date	17/04/2008
Pages	66
Weight (grammes)	86
Published in	United Kingdom
Height (mm)	198
Width (mm)	130

PATIENCE AGBABI is renowned for her live perfomances. Her poems have been broadcast on television and radio all over the world. Her work has also appeared on the London Underground and human skin. She has lectured in Creative Writing at several UK universities including Greenwich, Cardiff and Kent. Her books include three poetry collections R.A.W., Transformatrix, and Bloodshot Monochrome.