Appearances in the Bentinck Hotel (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

Cockburn, Tim

9781844719006: Appearances in the Bentinck Hotel (Salt Modern Poets)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844719006 ISBN 13: 9781844719006

Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2011

Reading these poems there is a sense that, through 'the sneakiness of words', their tantalising truths are continuing partly to elude us - when 'no' touches 'yes', a dream solidifies on waking, coffee dregs yield one's reflection, or the song you didn't think to remember renews its hold on you.

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Review:

Tim Cockburn is a bohemian young rake from Nottingham whose 20-page debut pamphlet Appearances in the Bentinck Hotel combines beauty with brevity. Last time I saw the author he was sat on the doorstep of the Flying Goose Cafe in Beeston with a half-empty bottle of red wine in his hand, after giving a brilliant reading, insisting he didn't care how he got home, he was happy to sleep right there. He may die young in a dramatic fashion, but lets hope he produces a few more books like this one first. I could expand on his profound voice, his spark of genius, but anyone who can write ‘I have been in love once or twice but a weir spits out a drowned dog eventually’ or ‘My tenderness has trodden on a three-pin plug’ is beyond that, really.

Author: Aly Stoneman Source: Leftlion Magazine

Review:

Tim Cockburn is a poet of skill, risk, and imagination. He borrows a wryness of observation, and a resigned, poignant sadness of predicament, from the Movement, but his poems are most impressive for the way they create a lifting sensation, a disarming feeling of romantic urgency, uncertainty and precariousness.

Author: Jack Underwood

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