A combination of verse and prose poetry, ‘The Migraine Hotel’ is Luke Kennard’s third collection and very much a sequel to ‘The Harbour Beyond the Movie’. The voices continue to explore the territory opened up by Harbour, at once satiric, stricken, sincere and bitingly sarcastic, combined with a kaleidoscopic range of ways of engaging with a poem as a reader. The prose poems are prose poems in the tradition of Baudelaire, which is to say they read more like grouchy comic monologues with unreliable narrators than prose-verse characterised by excessive lyricism.
| ISBN: | 9781844715558 |
| Publication date: | 28th April 2009 |
| Author: | Luke Kennard |
| Publisher: | Salt Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Series: | Salt Modern Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |