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Clark Gable in Mansfield: Selected Poems
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The King's England Press (2003-06-19)
ISBN: 1872438857
EAN: 9781872438856
Paperback: 64 pages
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A Name to Watch
Rating  (4)
Date: 2003-09-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Like any poet who's built up a substantial list of publishing credits and competition successes, Deborah Tyler-Bennett's difficulty was what to leave out of her first collection. She's best at families - not just hers - and home landscapes where detail accumulates and speaks for itself. She also experiments with pararhyme and rhythms, eg in "Tango Crowtrees", "Self-taught, he'd rather/ play 'Poet and Peasant' than thunder/ for Valentino, keys accompany mates walking from Crowtrees/ under liquorice skies. Charlie/ livens/ Latin lovers/ pouting and dancing/ fighting brothers/ (who spoil romancing)/ stepping gauchos/ tango to the/ miner's tune." where the last eight lines work to a tango rhythm. Intriguingly the title poem isn't the strongest, "Sons" has that claim, where baking a cake in wartime, "...Brown sugar's mulching autumn leaves,/ beat/ beat, grandad grieves.// Medlar, prunes strained pulpy, juiced,/ he allus wanted to break loose,/ yolk a glossy celandine,/ 'mix... beating stiffen'... he were mine!// Postman's passed our house.// Shooters got a telegram....". "Clark Gable in Mansfield" is a good introduction to a name to watch.
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