Before We Go Any Further
Before We Go Any Further
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In Before We Go Any Further, Tristram Fane Saunders' first book, readers are introduced to a gifted new writer, a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle even as the poems' darker themes resonate. Drawing on a delicious, unconventional sense of rhyme and rhythm, the poems conjure a recognizably contemporary London as they map the ways we try to communicate with each other across real and imagined distances. Sphinxes and sea-creatures, sleepwalkers and surrealists drift in and out of poems about art and friendship, poems which are "trying to tilt toward love", yet "can't help tugging/ at the invisibly thin/ line between true and honest", and discovering a wry humour in that struggle. And this extraordinary debut repeatedly finds resource and solace in a poem's ability to hear and set down the right word or phrase.
About the Author
About the Author
Tristram Fane Saunders, 30, works in London and lives in his head. He is the author of five pamphlets, including Woodsong and The Rake, and editor of Edna St Vincent Millay: Poems and Satires. He has performed at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe and York Cemetery, and his poems have appeared in The TLS and The White Review. He is The Telegraph’s fiction editor, poetry critic and stand-up comedy reviewer, and has reviewed new books for The TLS and Radio 4’s Front Row. He is very tired.
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