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SOUNDS IN THE GRASS
MATT NUNN
Published: October 2009
Price: £8.00
ISBN: 978-0-9560559-5-8
Extent:
‘...the scratching riff of despair fancying hope,
the 2-Tone glow through this, our longest epilogue,
the sound of rebuilding whilst structures are still collapsing,
a shot of short-term optimism stretched to ring forever.’
- from 'Coventry Calling'
Join Matt Nunn as he travels through the spaces that define us, taking in subjects as diverse as Mother Nature, the back catalogues of youth, breaking down at the greasy spoon and hitting the highways, all accompanied by generous and bittersweet helpings of food, sex and music.
Matt Nunn’s third collection, following on from Apocalyptic Bubblegum and Happy Cos I’m Blue is his most complete yet.
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Praise for Matt Nunn:
'Nunn has the staccato, twisted, lyrical joy in language of an English Raymond Queneau and he brings it to bear on a beautiful, litter-strewn urban landscape where "civilisations intersect" in travestied platitudes, deep-dish riddles and a cavalcade of local detail all at about 100mph. If you’ve heard Nunn read out loud you’ll be familiar with this energy and the hallucinatory clarity of his imagery. He ploughs fearlessly straight into class, religion and education with frenzied, articulate wit matched by rage, which is not to overlook the genuine warmth and humanity beating underneath the surface. Sounds in the Grass realises the potential suggested by Nunn’s previous collections and then some.'
– Luke Kennard
'One moment he is like Hopkins on speed, the next like a latter-day Prufrock spilling the beans'
- Peter Carpenter
'Matt Nunn is multitudes'
- David Morley
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Read an extract from this book here.
Matt Nunn was born in West Bromwich in 1971 and works as a freelance poetry workshop leader and freelance writer. His work has taken him into many obscure places. Amongst other things he is the the co-editor of Under the Radar and Nine Arches Press. He lives with his wife and son in some kind of bliss in Solihull. |
