Bücher von Luke Kennard

Bad Sermons is a loose, anarchic sequence from Forward Prize shortlisted poet Luke Kennard. Described by the author as 'a thriller in 23 parts' Bad Sermons' sunken narrative pushes the poet into strange and surreal places, free from formal constraints, with ample space to admire "the blue glare of the blue glare" and "tiny black marzipan teardrops". Bad Sermons is a curious and compelling work from an essential poet.

Fourth collection from award-winning poet Luke Kennard departs from previous outings in its scale and range while retaining his trademark wit and humour.

This is another sensational collection from Luke Kennard packed with humour and his heady mix of crazy animistic narrators and surreal mise-en-scene. Taking off from his much celebrated second collection, The Harbour Beyond the Movie which was shortlisted for the 2007 Forward Prize for Poetry.

Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and dramatist. His first collection of prose poems The Solex Brothers was published by Stride Books. He has worked as regional editor for Succour, a bi-annual journal of poetry and short fiction and as an associated reader for The Kenyon Review.

The Solex Brothers explores the fate of the individual - albeit a rather feeble individual - and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral absolution in narratives at once Fauvist and Baroque, expunging the twee with a reformist's remorseless vigour.