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FUNGLISH
Ruth Larbey
Ruth Larbey's debut collection Funglish is a maiden voyage alive with the simple thrill of exploration. Arriving in the big city for the first time, and encountering love armed only with the crackle of language, she re-imagines liminal spaces into new territories vibrant with possibility. With Funglish, Ruth Larbey has begun to write the first chapter in the history of the new romantics.
Praise for Funglish:
“There’s a drastic incandescence to Ruth Larbey’s syntax which pulls you into her poetry. Writing with an edgy control reminiscent of Emily Dickinson, her poems create exacting ‘electric constellations’ of vision and nerve in which no word is wasted, no darkness left unexplored. As Dickinson wrote, ‘A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.’ Ruth Larbey’s language is alive and gravid.”
- David Morley
Launched: 4th October 2010
Price: £5.00
ISBN: 978-0-9565514-3-6
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Read an extract from this pamphlet here.
RUTH LARBEY was born in Cyprus, and grew up in Nottingham, Hong Kong and rural Cumbria. She has
spent her last two years working at an international development charity in London, after completing her MA at Warwick University in 2008. She has been published in various magazines, and organises music and art performance events in her spare time. Funglish is her debut pamphlet of poems.
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