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House of Tongues, Paperback / softback Book

House of Tongues Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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"House of Tongues" is concerned with acceptance and refusal, power and the lack of it, silence and the refusal of silence.

It's also a book full of the sadness and exhilaration of leaving - of saying an often ambivalent goodbye to people and places, a job, friends lost through illness, sex, innocence - and of the precarious process of patiently setting out again.

Far from remembered in tranquillity, the emotion here is re-enacted in the book's surprising coda - a series of poems set in the Swedish Hanseatic harbour town of Visby and based on its many colourful stories, from medieval to more modern times.

In these poems, tongues mix and entwine in the mouths of unlikely personae in an atmosphere of vengeance and betrayal that throw a retrospective light on the more contemporary themes and material that form the body of Susan Wicks's collection.

Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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