- Paperback: 72 pages
- Publisher: Seren (18 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1854113658
- ISBN-13: 978-1854113658
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 14.1 x 0.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,061,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kathryn Gray's poetry is delightfully accessible, intelligent, full of deftly rendered detail and attractive cadences. - Douglas Dunn an original and thoroughly twenty-first century debut. - Maurice Riordan Crackles with good ideas, reality and youth - qualities that rarely arrive at the same time - a winner. - Peter Finch
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an original and thoroughly twenty-first century debut.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Stuff,
This review is from: The Never-Never (Paperback)
Not bought here - I've seen this as a review copy which I nicked from a mate. A superb book by a writer who is amazingly talented and in touch with her culture. The King's Head is one of the best poems I have read in years. Some of it's a bit over my head but it's great stuff.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Surrender, Reader,
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This review is from: The Never-Never (Paperback)
If what you're looking for from contemporary poetry is a fluid yet formal verse which attempts to grapple with the 'drunken variousness of things', particularly in our globalised, information age world, then 'The Never Never' is for you. Too much poetry shies away from truly embracing the sheer variety of modern life that more capacious forms such as the novel easily inhabit. But Kathryn Gray is also profoundly rooted in the culture of her native South Wales and there's much interest in the mix and tension between her sophisticated range and gift for evoking the Swansea in which she grew up.In some poems the sheer volume of associations and thoughts that Gray can riff through make for some headily long sentences which are refreshing to the short, bitten-off phrasing of some so-called writers. How come so many poets value outre vocabulary and unnaturally weird metaphors but ignore the potential of syntax - which is after all the engine of meaning in any language? Sure, occasionally Gray's poems are a bit of a jolt to the system - better than sending you to sleep - and she could sometimes do with a little more clarity. But there are plenty poems which are as clear-eyed and simple as others are ambitiously complex. There are poems here about the Wizard of Oz and a drug-addict lover("Surrender, Dorothy"), the pub seen as a church ("The King's Head") and the favourite solitary pastime of teenage boys ("Secondhand"). I laughed out loud at her poem on the Welsh ("The Italians In The Rain") and a near-heretical take on a Ted Hughes 'Birthday Letters' poem - "You Hated Your Flat". All in all a great debut by a writer I suspect we'll hear much more of.
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