Poundlandia, A.C. Bevan

Poundlandia, A.C. Bevan

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Poundlandia, A. C. Bevan
Paperback
ISBN 978-1-869848-37-8
234 x 156 mm 72 pp. 3 October 2024
JUST PUBLISHED

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FROM THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY, through suburban mock-revival, to the pastoral idyll of the countryside beyond, Poundlandia is a pilgrimage to the dark heart of modern-day Britain, taking the reader through a landscape of mythology & geography; nostalgia & modernity; poetry, nature & the arts; from the Neolithic to the post-Brexit Age, via the cultural wastes of late stage capitalism, where Romance meets harsh reality, & love & lore grim death, returning in the end to the old earth, to the land.
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A. C. Bevan’s poems have appeared in many magazines, newspapers & anthologies in the UK, Europe & the US; the Science Museum website on National Poetry Day; as a poster on a Channel Island bus; & in an off, off, off–Broadway play. The author of five pamphlet collections to date (from Arc Publications & Rack Press among others),
this is his first full poetry collection. He lives in Bristol, England.
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‘Bevan’s sarcasm & neologisms […] provide a refreshing & occasionally humorous perspective’ (Caitland Stobie, Stand Magazine)
‘…frequently enlivened by cold, misanthropic wit, or acute observation or imagination’ (Rory Waterman, PNR)
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Cover image: Mrs Jean Wookey in the costume of Britannia, 1977 © Bristol Culture, M Shed, History department.
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