Dear Boy
Dear Boy "These fast-paced poems sting the collection with electricity. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of…
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Dear Boy
"These fast-paced poems sting the collection with electricity. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies.In a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ingenue masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children. They are the quick-fire reports of an ecstatic new voice in contemporary UK poetry." - LA Review of BooksDear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry.
Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes mournful, the book's confiding, conversational voices tell stories recognizable and refracted, carried along by the
Dear Boy
Dear Boy,
Dear Boy Fletcher Tony
Dear Carnap, Dear Van
Dear Teacher
Dear John
Dear Edward
Dear Wife
Sister Dear
Dear Self,