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All the gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are strongly in evidence in his first book of poetry – the humanity of his voices, his dark humour and uncanny ventriloquism – but Haddon is also a poet of considerable seriousness, lyric power and surreal invention. With bittersweet love-songs, comic set-pieces, lullabies, bold new versions of Horace, wry postmodern shenanigans (including a note from the official board of censors on '18' certificate poetry), and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Seaconfirms Haddon's reputation as one of the sharpest and most consistently surprising imaginations at work in contemporary literature. 'Unusually funny, frank and wry, and restlessly engaged with examining the received narratives of life' NICK LAIRD, Daily Telegraph
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