Bloodshot Monochrome
- 17 Apr 2008
- 9781847671530
- £9.99
- 96 pp
- 129×198mm
- 17 Apr 2014
- 9781782114888
- £7.99
- 96 pp
In a few words
New collection of poems by one of Britain’s Next Generation Poets
In a few words
New collection of poems by one of Britain’s Next Generation Poets
Praise for Transformatrix:
A rising star.
Thrilling. Has a multi-dimensional richness. It's a bold, brassy work.
Praise for Transformatrix:
A rising star.
Thrilling. Has a multi-dimensional richness. It's a bold, brassy work.
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the book
Bloodshot Monochrome is a glorious poetic take on all things black, white and read.
Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing old, from Northern Soul to contract killers, from the retro to the brand new. Whether resurrecting the dead in ‘Problem Pages’, playing out noir dramas in ‘Vicious Circle’, or capturing moments of her own life in perfect snapshot, Agbabi’s verse is sublimely lyrical and spiked with gleeful humour.
More about
the book
Bloodshot Monochrome is a glorious poetic take on all things black, white and read.
Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing old, from Northern Soul to contract killers, from the retro to the brand new. Whether resurrecting the dead in ‘Problem Pages’, playing out noir dramas in ‘Vicious Circle’, or capturing moments of her own life in perfect snapshot, Agbabi’s verse is sublimely lyrical and spiked with gleeful humour.
Praise for Transformatrix:
Draws on rap, jive and disco rhythms as much as the formal subtleties of free verse. Agbabi is a fine poet, and her linguistic wit carries satirical fire.
Combines cutting satire and outright celebration.
[Patience Agbabi's] love of the English language, and finding new ways she can subvert it, shines through. Honest, darkly funny and endlessly creative, she takes the sonnet, chats it up, tattoos it, gives it some motherly advice and then sends it away again.
Claire Sawers
The ListStill as hard-hitting on contemporary themes of race, sex and identity as she was when she published her first collection . . . combines the mastery of the tools of her poetic trade with contemporary and very personal themes . . . Her words are crisp, clear and beautiful to read.
Praise for Transformatrix:
Draws on rap, jive and disco rhythms as much as the formal subtleties of free verse. Agbabi is a fine poet, and her linguistic wit carries satirical fire.
Combines cutting satire and outright celebration.
[Patience Agbabi's] love of the English language, and finding new ways she can subvert it, shines through. Honest, darkly funny and endlessly creative, she takes the sonnet, chats it up, tattoos it, gives it some motherly advice and then sends it away again.
Claire Sawers
The ListStill as hard-hitting on contemporary themes of race, sex and identity as she was when she published her first collection . . . combines the mastery of the tools of her poetic trade with contemporary and very personal themes . . . Her words are crisp, clear and beautiful to read.
Patience Agbabi
View profilePatience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, but grew up in rural Wales with white foster parents. Featured on Channel 4 and renowned on the performance circuit, her debut collection R.A.W. won the 1997 Excelle Literary Award for poetry, and Transformatrix was highly critically acclaimed on publication in 2000. Her poems have appeared on radio and television all over the world.
Patience Agbabi
View profilePatience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, but grew up in rural Wales with white foster parents. Featured on Channel 4 and renowned on the performance circuit, her debut collection R.A.W. won the 1997 Excelle Literary Award for poetry, and Transformatrix was highly critically acclaimed on publication in 2000. Her poems have appeared on radio and television all over the world.
