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Smoothie, Paperback / softback Book

Smoothie Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Smoothie is Claudine Toutoungi’s debut collection of poems.

It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous, comical and sometimes – often enough to fend off despair – fulfilled.

Smoothie plots the wayward wanderings of a beguiling cast of misfits – hotel eavesdroppers, city interlopers, lone wolves, phantom bird-watchers, disaffected language robots and triumphant piano-swallowers – as they try to express themselves.

The poems are candid without being confessional: the poet’s `I’ encompasses the reader.

Language’s smooth surface bubbles up as Toutoungi’s characters reveal their peculiarly twenty-first-century disorientations, riffing off loneliness, authenticity and heartbreak as they go.

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