Stranded in Sub-Atomica - Softcover

Turnbull, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954198360 ISBN 13: 9780954198367

Publisher: Donut Press, 2005

Synopsis

Tim Turnbull s Stranded in Sub-Atomica takes its name from an issue of the Marvel comics series Fantastic Four though, unlike its futuristic predecessor, Turnbull s is a world devoid of super-heroes and secret powers: a contemporary dystopia which lies not a million miles from home. Entering, we encounter a paean to Johnny Cash, a lament for the Austin 1800 and witness mankind s appetite for destruction as glimpsed in a Laurel and Hardy museum. Sharply observed narratives cross the arcs of young lives arcs not always rising, lives often stuck, alienated or marginalised. As he offers up a lullaby for an alcoholic and delivers darkly-skewed love poems, Turnbull presents us with poetry as a fragile bulwark against the iniquitous and the absurd. Sometimes reminiscent of Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison, Turnbull s work is unflinching, brilliantly comic and committed to the vernacular. Stranded in Sub-Atomica is a startling debut from an excellent new satirical voice.

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Review

'Turnbull is a deft storyteller with a cinematographic eye, continually offering a unique view’ -- New Hope International

‘Tim Turnbull is shaping up to be one of the most unique and important poetic voices of the decade’ -- The Slab

Edition details

• Publisher: Donut Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954198360
• ISBN 13: 9780954198367
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 84