The Alexandra Sequence [electronic resource]
John Redmond2016
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In The Alexandra Sequence John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the
suggestive prism of the mummers' play, a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in
the streets and door-to-door. The book takes its title from an area of
Liverpool, a city shaped by its recent history of trade and migration, still
recovering after a long period of decline. Experiences of uprootedness and
social precarity frame suburban lives that are 'livid with accident'. Drawing on
the two central themes of the mummers' play - combat and resurrection - the
poems reveal both dark and light parallels between the modern-day neighbourhood
and medieval theatre: the carnivalesque zombie-drummers marching through a local
park find their mirror-image in the daily disguises of life in a housing estate,
or in the masked infractions of the 2011 England Riots. Mixing narrative and
lyric, Redmond paints a neighbourhood of lively, unlikely references, from
Juvenal to Tommy Cooper, Brueghel to indie rock. // ...
Main title:
The Alexandra Sequence [electronic resource] / John Redmond
Author:
John Redmond, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Poetry, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (300 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781784102050
Language:
English
BRN:
439009
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |