Peter Hughes & Simon Marsh: The Pistol Tree Poems
Published 15 October 2011
Paperback, 144pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17.00
ISBN 9781848611719
"By turns absurd, sophisticated, bawdy, tender, precise and sprawling, The
Pistol Tree Poems captures the intellectual intimacy and infectious spontaneity
of poetic collaboration at its white-hot best. There’s brilliance and
ingenuity on display in every poem here—a searching co-intelligence
shot through with moments of emotional intensity. Hughes and Marsh give you
a buzz of discovery with every page turned, leaving you breathless for more.
And more is what you find with each re-reading of these oxymoronically feather-light
yet densely packed poems. This is wide-ranging, deceptively deep-thinking,
and brilliantly structured poetry disguised as imaginative twitches at the
mind’s eye-corners—flickering, intense, innovative and utterly
mesmerising."
—Nathan Thompson
"As good as the movies."
—John Hall
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