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Bad Sermons is a loose, anarchic sequence from Forward Prize shortlisted poet Luke Kennard. Described by the author as 'a thriller in 23 parts' Bad Sermons' sunken narrative pushes the poet into strange and surreal places, free from formal constraints, with ample space to admire "the blue glare of the blue glare" and "tiny black marzipan teardrops". Bad Sermons is a curious and compelling work from an essential poet.

Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, Notes on the Sonnets riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard's affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and a sad horse.

A heartbreakingly moving and hilariously funny novel about marriage, parenting, love, desire and betrayal. 'Captivating' Ruth Jones, author of Us Three 'Tremendous' William Boyd author of Any Human Heart 'Funny, wry, unsettling' Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall

A heartbreakingly moving and hilariously funny novel about marriage, parenting, love, desire and betrayal

A heartbreakingly moving and hilariously funny novel about marriage, parenting, love, desire and betrayal

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Poetry. Modeled on the famous United States competition, the second annual Best New British and Irish Poets competition was open to any poet of British or Irish citizenship and/or UK or Irish residency who has not yet published (and is not under contract to publish) a full-length collection of poetry. Poems submitted for consideration could have appeared in print before, or in a pamphlet, though not online. This diverse and lively group of wri...

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A dark and very funny thought experiment ensues when a couple in their early thirties are forced to move in with an older couple.

Verbessere dich selbst, und du verbesserst die Welt." Karl und Genevieve, beide Anfang 30, sind überqualifiziert und hoch verschuldet, wissen nicht weiter. Überraschend bekommt das junge Paar das verlockende Angebot, an einem Pilotprogramm namens Transition teilzunehmen. Dahinter steckt eine wohltätige Organisation, die desillusionierten Großstädtern wieder auf die Füße helfen will. Einzige Bedingung: Die Testpersonen müssen sechs Monate bei ...

New title from a renowned young poet and winner of an "Eric Gregory Award", "The Transition" is a dark but humorous thought-provoking experiment. An early thirties couple move in with an older, 'more experienced' couple for six months - in a bid to be taught key areas of the scheme: employment, responsibility and finances, nutrition and self-respect, before being reintegrated back into adult society.

A combination of verse and prose poetry, 'The Migraine Hotel' is Luke Kennard's third collection and very much a sequel to 'The Harbour Beyond the Movie'. The voices continue to explore the territory opened up by Harbour, at once satiric, stricken, sincere and bitingly sarcastic, combined with a kaleidoscopic range of ways of engaging with a poem as a reader. The prose poems are prose poems in the tradition of Baudelaire, which is to say they ...

This is Luke Kennard's fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the verse more personal. It is unmistakably a Kennard book (the wolf appears here in his sixth outing), but there is also a striving to turn away from the self-referential games and literary in-jokes of Kennard's previous work and look outward, an attempt to grow something in th...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD POETRY PRIZE 2007. Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic, dramatist and research student at the University of Exeter. His first collection of prose poems "The Solex Brothers" was published by Stride Books. He has worked as regional editor for "Succour", a bi-annual journal of poetry and short fiction and as an associated reader for "The Kenyon Review". He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005.

The Solex Brothers" explores the fate of the individual - albeit a rather feeble individual - and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral absolution in narratives at once Fauvist and Baroque, expunging the twee with a reformist's remorseless vigour, cherishing its influences with a poststructuralist's vertical rigour, and, at times, chasing its tail with a schoolboy's reductive snigger.