Hotel

By Ali Lewis

Hotel is a wonderful debut pamphlet from 2018 Eric Gregory award winning poet Ali Lewis. In short, intricate verse, his poems tackle the complexities of modern relationships and city living with great self-deprecation, not a little light-heartedness, and dashes of the surreal. But there is depth here too. In this connected century, with so many eyes on you, with so many opinions and agendas being made vocal, what is the best way to be, as a partner, a friend, a colleague? And what will happen if you get it wrong? The domestic lives large in these works, whether in rooms and halls offices or in the world beyond.Ali Lewis is a fresh new voice in poetry and is here for the long haul. Read, and you'll see why.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Verve Poetry Press
• Release date: Mar 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781912565832

Ali Lewis

Ali Lewis is a poet from Nottingham. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2018, and his poems have appeared in magazines including Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Ambit, Magma, The Scores, The Rialto and Textual Practice. He has a degree in Politics from Cambridge, where he received the John Dunn and Precious Pearl Prizes and was a member of the Footlights, and an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, where he was shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh and Ivan Juritz Awards. He is an AHRC-funded doctoral student at Durham University. He is Assistant Editor at Poetry London.

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FIRST PUBLISHED MAR 2020

Printed and bound in the UK by Positive Print, Birmingham

ISBN: 978-1-912565-29-0

ePub ISBN: 978-1-912565-83-2

CONTENTS

Pressure

Carpet

Sonnet

Typhoon Lagoon

Making Love to the Knife Thrower

Test Scenario

The Englishman

Free Will

Fractal Date

The Best Thing About Falling

The Past

S & M

Gloss

The Diamond Cutter

Wild Fig

Putting the