Couples
"Bleak but wonderful ... familiar, and of course funny." Alan Bennett "Dark, funny and twisted, but surprisingly tender." A.L. KennedyCouples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the…
Specifikacia Couples
"Bleak but wonderful ... familiar, and of course funny." Alan Bennett "Dark, funny and twisted, but surprisingly tender." A.L. KennedyCouples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the nature of co-dependency - of two people who want to be together, but at the same time cannot help but push each other away.The layout of the book is itself a commentary on the phenomenon - the poems are placed in their own 'couples', pairs that face each other across the page. Sometimes they exchange a glance, sometimes they stand side-by-side, staring out into the abyss; only when the book is closed, and they are in darkness, do they truly come together.Originally published on Valentine's Day 2013, the seven-year itch has brought Michael Stewart back to his old flame for a new edition in 2020;