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    Before We Go Any Further
    Before We Go Any Further
    Before We Go Any Further
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    Before We Go Any Further

    By Tristram Fane Saunders

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    In Tristram Fane Saunders' first collection, readers encounter a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle, even while exploring darker themes. Drawing on delicious, unconventional rhymes and rhythms, Before We Go Any Further conjures a contemporary London as it maps the ways we try to communicate with each other across real and invented distances.Sphinxes and sea-creatures, sleepwalkers and surrealists visit poems about art and friendship, poems that are 'trying to tilt toward love', but 'can't help tugging/at the invisibly thin/line between true and honest' . They discover wry humour in that struggle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateAug 31, 2023
    ISBN9781800173262
    Before We Go Any Further
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    Tristram Fane Saunders

    Tristram Fane Saunders lives in London and works as a journalist. He is the author of five pamphlets including The Rake (The Poetry Business, 2022), and is the editor of Edna St Vincent Millay: Poems and Satires (Carcanet, 2021). His poems have appeared in The TLS, The White Review and Poetry Ireland Review.

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