In his début pamphlet, Max Wallis traces the year-long course of a love affair and all its constituent parts: sex and sensuality, longing and loneliness, desire and disappointment, heady beginnings and inevitable endings; in a world dominated by high street brands, text messaging and social media. Featuring trademark acrobatics with language in an attempt to grapple with this fast, feisty world, Modern Love recasts love in a sincere, vivacious voice.
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Max Wallis shows that modern love is the same as love ever was. The heart beats in the same way, the silences, kisses and stillnesses shared by lovers are as they ever were, ever will be. --Helen Ivory
Modern Love presents love absent of all its Hollywood romanticism. It's visceral, liminal, alcoholic and all the more romantic for it. Disturbingly sublime. --Popshot Magazine
Modern Love - originally the title of George Meredith's 1862 book of 16-line sonnets - looks to trace the year-long course of a passion as echoed through contemporary manners and languages such as texting and Facebook... Inventive and intense at best, the discourse here has an urgency that refuses to settle. --George Szirtes
Modern Love presents love absent of all its Hollywood romanticism. It's visceral, liminal, alcoholic and all the more romantic for it. Disturbingly sublime. --Popshot Magazine
Modern Love - originally the title of George Meredith's 1862 book of 16-line sonnets - looks to trace the year-long course of a passion as echoed through contemporary manners and languages such as texting and Facebook... Inventive and intense at best, the discourse here has an urgency that refuses to settle. --George Szirtes
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Widely published in anthologies, magazines and journals, including Popshot, Cadaverine and Soul Feathers (alongside Carol Ann Duffy and Leonard Cohen), Max Wallis has found recognition early. Between October 2010 and March 2011 he took part in the Barbican Centre's prestigious Young Poet Scheme and proved himself as agile on stage as his work is on the page. Max is currently studying for a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester where he is working on a début novel and a full collection of poetry. He also runs the project somethingeveryday which brings award-winning authors, poets and artists together to challenge their craft through a daily discipline. At twenty-one, Max Wallis has been described by David Hoyle as the future of poetry. Modern Love, his début pamphlet, gives weight to that claim.
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By Nina Bahadur
Format:Pamphlet
"Modern Love" arrived in the post two days ago, and I have not been able to put it down. Max's poems are brilliantly crafted and intelligent. His use of language is masterful; in his short poems he captures moments and feelings that anyone who has been in love today would understand. Max has a seemingly innate understanding of natural rhythm and pause, which makes his poetry a pleasure to read aloud: "Kissing. Like this. x. And this. x. And this. x."
The poems in "Modern Love" effortlessly integrate the typically 'non-poetic' realms of text messages, Facebook etiquette, and Gumtree with all the delusions and delirium of love (the kind that hurts). Almost every poem resonated with me deeply, typically catching me at the first line: "Allow yourself this one day / hungover from love".
This book, a brave and truly incredible début, speaks effortlessly to how our generation navigates the big L. Max is an exceptionally talented young poet, and I look forward to seeing what he brings us next.
The poems in "Modern Love" effortlessly integrate the typically 'non-poetic' realms of text messages, Facebook etiquette, and Gumtree with all the delusions and delirium of love (the kind that hurts). Almost every poem resonated with me deeply, typically catching me at the first line: "Allow yourself this one day / hungover from love".
This book, a brave and truly incredible début, speaks effortlessly to how our generation navigates the big L. Max is an exceptionally talented young poet, and I look forward to seeing what he brings us next.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By D. Kirkwood
Format:Pamphlet
In my opinion Max is up there with the most interesting of the young British poets such as Jack Underwood and Fiona Benson. Their work, for me, answers the question ( if it's not too soon to be asking this ); 'where next?' after Armitage, Farley, Paterson, Robertson, Oswald et al. These younger voices breaking through have a freshness and vitality that speaks for the next wave.
But it's not all about uber now, in this short collection we find three line poems with the perceptive simplicity of Menashe next to longer works that wriggle and tease their way through your mind like Moulson, others offer deceptively simple layers of meaning where you hear echoes of Bishop. There are some distinctly individual touches throughout with some fascinating word choices and meter that set up unexpected counterpoints , "From the blue lines, the scrawled words,/ I can trace your fingernibs / and unpluck your prints." There are also daring allusions, see 'Morning', that reveal an honesty all modern art of substance requires.
I read that Max is working on his first full collection--can't wait.
But it's not all about uber now, in this short collection we find three line poems with the perceptive simplicity of Menashe next to longer works that wriggle and tease their way through your mind like Moulson, others offer deceptively simple layers of meaning where you hear echoes of Bishop. There are some distinctly individual touches throughout with some fascinating word choices and meter that set up unexpected counterpoints , "From the blue lines, the scrawled words,/ I can trace your fingernibs / and unpluck your prints." There are also daring allusions, see 'Morning', that reveal an honesty all modern art of substance requires.
I read that Max is working on his first full collection--can't wait.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Georgia
Format:Pamphlet
Modern Love is a short, but intense experience. Awkward, honest, brave and at times agonisingly familiar, the pages are soaked in alcohol and sex. It tracks a relationship over the course of a year, in scenes that will be all too familiar to anyone who has ever had to change their relationship status on Facebook back to 'single'.
I loved this pamphlet.
I loved this pamphlet.
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A review of Max Wallis's Modern Love
Max Wallis's Modern Love is a chronological collection of poems which follows the course of romantic love through its various vexing and tender stages. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Douglas Gibson
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Modern Love, Max Wallis.
I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of this pamphlet before it was officially published. It is all credit to Max, that I desperately still wanted a copy when it came out. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Raichyrae
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Awaiting pamphlet # 2
After seeing Max on stage and listening to his words there was really only one thing I could do (apart from asking him to write all his poems down for me there and then), Buy... Read more
Published 21 months ago by pebbleddash
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Fantastic - A Literary Revolution
New talent Max Wallis showcases his work and communicates his passion for the first time both eloquently and poignantly in what is hopefully one of many poetry pamphlets to come. Read more
Published 22 months ago by rubyc
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Modern Love is a guidebook to love in the modern age
Max's style is very fresh. He talks openly about very hard life topics, such as love, sex, relationships. He is able to convey very much important messages in very few words. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Lizzie K
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Fall in Modern Love
Modern love isn't all holding hands and looking at each other wistfully as you stroll through meadows in some Keatsian idyll. Well, it might be for some. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mark Antony Owen
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