- Paperback
- Publisher: Penned in the Margins (9 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955384648
- ISBN-13: 978-0955384646
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 893,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In his free-wheeling lyricism, caustic wit and brilliantly surreal turn of image, Sutherland is a truly contemporary original. His poetry rejuvenates techniques as disparate as collage, memoir, sound experiment and formal appropriation in vigorous but finely wrought lines. Refreshingly fearless and bleakly funny, Things To Do Before You Leave Town collects works that shock and delight in performance but reveal their true depth on the page. --Luke Kennard
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Mono-browed cousins, clandestine paperboys, murderous action heroes and Swiss euthanasia clinics jostle for position in Ross Sutherland's intelligent and wildly entertaining debut collection of poetry. Sutherland charts the never-ending urban excursions of Pac-Man; constructs mash-ups of celebrity obits; and dons a surgical mask to conduct an `Experiment to Determine the Existence of Love'. Things To Do Before You Leave Town is a sharp, ambitious and blackly comic exploration of the end of things, where `all the roads that lead out are really leading back in'.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Strong imagery, an original turn of phrase and a wide scope within subject matter as well as mood.
A notable debut collection from a fine poet.
A notable debut collection from a fine poet.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
giving expression to those spaces between metaphor and meaning and the journey from belonging to loss and back again. An amazing collection that gives a voice to those who have felt the need to throw frisbees of the highest point in town.
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