Welcome to the Real World: Collected Poems and Performance Pieces 1980-2000 - Softcover

Godfrey Rust

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952021218 ISBN 13: 9780952021216

Publisher: Wordsout Publications, 2000

Synopsis

The complete collection of Godfrey Rust's poems and performance over a twenty year period, including the whole of the now out-of-print "Breaking The Chains" and 120 pages of previously unpublished pieces. Many of these pieces are suitable for public performance and use in worship services.

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Review

Back in 1993 Cross Rhythms reviewed Godfrey's Breaking The Chains book of poems and commented that "Britain has another wordsmith to put alongside the Steve Turners and Stuart Hendersons."; Now that book has been expanded so that alongside those witty, incisive, thought-provoking works we've got another batch to take us up to 2000. Their range is dazzling - an encounter with a cathedral official in Florence who demands Godfrey remove his straw hat so that "my balding head is cruelly exposed to His minute examination"; the passing of an elderly church saint; telly advertising pitched at kids; the Magi (one of four telling poems for Christmas); or a chilling fantasy of Judas calling room service. Here is a poet with the cultural savy to lambast the absurdities of our culture yet the maturity to espy the Father in the minutiae of all our lives. --Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms Magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsout Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0952021218
• ISBN 13: 9780952021216
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288