Meat Songs E-Book

Jack Nicholls

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: The Emma Press Picks
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 20

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The voices of humans and animals, living and dead, clamour for the reader's attention in Meat Songs. Headlice roam their strange habitat, a severed pig's head questions an undergraduate's choices, and packaged meat products are ignoring the future.

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First published in Great Britain in 2017by the Emma Press Ltd

Text © Jack Nicholls 2017Illustrations © Mark Andrew Webber 2017

All rights reserved.

The right of Jack Nicholls and Mark Andrew Webber to be identified as the author and illustrator respectively of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 978-1-910139-62-2

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

Printed and bound in Great Britainby Airdrie Print Services, Glasgow.

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CONTENTS

Headlouse

Grumpy Cat

Ground Mince Sonnet

Ants March on My Torso

Severed Pig’s Head

Poem in Which I Sell You a Dog

In the Cat Café

Benson Laments the Loss of Hedges

Who’s a Good Boy?

Caroline

White Tiger Farm

Hounds of Love

Our Cat, Cat, On Her Last Day

Baa

Acknowledgements

About the poet and illustrator

About the Emma Press

HEADLOUSE

I have only known the smell of you. Sometimes you poke a gaggy froth up here, the water beating, the air poison, but I hunker and I clasp I to a strand and still I smell it, the sweet and greasy smell of you.