- Paperback: 74 pages
- Publisher: Stride Publications; First Edition edition (1 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 190015255X
- ISBN-13: 978-1900152556
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Apocalypso (Paperback)
Ken Smith writes in his foreword to APOCALYPSO, "Apocalypso is a world inhabited by the perpetually disappointed, for whom nothing is as promised, nothing turns out as hoped. Through the urban detritus tramp aprocession of the alienated and the estranged, "their lives summed up by useless objects". The speed is fast, the language sharp, the imagery surprising. These poems read like a Thesaurus of brilliant one-liners held together in a tentative and unstable world: "You open your mouth and someone else is speaking; in debt and in need of a shave. Bogart on speed." Things happen, seemingly at random, to desparate protagonists forever dissolving into one another, and every one of them loses: partners, jobs, homes, identities, belief. Strange things happen to strange people, and they turn out to be us.""Tim Cumming is a real treasure... Sometimes the poems are as realistic as life is, and sometimes he builds up the absurdities and incongruities to create a world that's as unreal as life is. These are definitely poems for the Nineties."-Ian MacMillan in Poetry Review "Cumming has a lot to say about England and his most satisfying work focuses on the last decade to produce a kind of homegrown political magic realism." - Verse "A master of deadpan menace and telling juxtaposition ... has a telling turn of phrase, and a good few ways with narrative. For sheer inventiveness aligned with engagement, avoidance of the whining purely subjective tone of some "political" verse, and startling images and ideas, you'll go a long way before beating this... nothing less than astonishing." - Scratch Magazine
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