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The Toll

Luke Wright

Publisher: Penned in the Margins

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Summary

An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex;

a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete; ,brand a young woman dreams of leaving home.

Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his stunning new collection, discover a country riven by inequality and corruption but sustained by a surreal, gallow's humour. The Toll combines the elegaic with the anarchic, placing uproarious satire cheek-by-jowl with wild experiments in form and touching poems of parenthood.

In this mature follow-up to his best-selling debut, Mondeo Man, Wright captures the strain of austerity Britain, speaking truth to power and registering the toll it takes on us all.
Available since: 03/17/2017.
Print length: 94 pages.

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