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Item Details
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THE ALEXANDRA SEQUENCE
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| By: |
John Redmond |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1784102040 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781784102043 |
| Publisher: |
CARCANET PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2016 |
| Pages: |
72 |
| Description: |
Explores contemporary attitudes to community and forms of anti-social behaviour |
| Synopsis: |
In The Alexandra Sequence John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the suggestive prism of the 'mummers play', a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in the streets and door-to-door. The book's title takes its name from an area of Liverpool, a city shaped by its recent history of trade and migration, still recovering after a long period of decline. Experiences of urban uprootedness and social precarity shape suburban livelihoods that are 'livid with accident'. Drawing on the two central themes of the mummers play - combat and resurrection - the poems reveal both dark and light parallels between the modern neighbourhood and medieval theatre: the carnivalesque zombie-drummers marching through a local park find their mirror-image in the daily disguises of life in a housing estate, or in the masked infractions of the 2011 England Riots. Mixing narrative and lyric, Redmond paints a neighbourhood of lively, unlikely references, from Juvenal to Tommy Cooper, Brueghel to indie rock. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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