A Very Quiet Street (Polygon Sigma)

Literature & Fiction

Kuppner, Frank

British & Irish

Small Pr Distribution

A Concussed History of Scotland (Polygons Sigma Series)

Not a Moment Too Soon

Poetry

Carcanet Press Ltd.

A fresh collection of experimental poems by a Scottish poet and novelist with a cult following, this book is ideal for students of experiemental poetry or of the Scottish contemporary scene. Dealing with the differing parts of the self, this collection explores how the minute variations of identity are expressed as a single human form. Expressing the dialectic, thesis, and synthesis of the human condition—the me, myself, and I—the poems are no more complicated than the doctrine of the Trinity, but are a good deal closer to home.

The Same Life Twice

Everything is always strange in the poetry of Frank Kuppner. His first Carcanet book was a single poem, A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (1984, Scottish Arts Council Book Award), running to 511 Oriental Quatrains, a kind of Procrustean Bed of Ware accommodating a multitude of four-line feelings, experiments, jests and characters. Then came The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women (1987), with five substantial poems including the Five Quartets' and much else besides. In the 1989 collection Ridiculous, Absurd, Disgusting!, with its oblique glance at Rimbaud, he managed to include three poems, one in prose, one in verse, and one half-way between.

Everything Is Strange

The 501 quatrains which constitute Frank Kuppner's text may make it seem like a repackaged version of his first collection. This work, however, provides a different tone.

Second Best Moments in Chinese History

The range and variety of the Scottish writer Frank Kuppner, as evidenced in the ten books which were published in the last century, are such that many people just did not know where to start. Here, is the place to do so, at least, where the poetry is concerned - the author's own selection from his five books of poetry: A Bad day for the Sung Dynasty (1984), The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women (1987), Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting! (1989), Everything is Strange (1994), Second Best Moments in Chinese History (1997). With a miniature epic in fragments, The Kuppneriad, as a bonus. Love, China, wisdom, humour, variable taste, and reticence about botany. It's all here. Or, more accurately, some of it is here.

What? Again?: Selected Poems (Poetry Pleiade)

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