Stroll On
Overview
"What a drag it is getting old" was one of the few things that Belmont Thom and his wife Tuppence agreed on. With a nod to Sophocles and to Homer and with a great big genuflecting thanks-for-the-idea to the late Peter Tinniswood (who appears in the piece) Stroll On tells this couple's story. The narrative is a hybrid of two kinds: 'poem-prose' (as opposed to a prose poem) and magic-realism. 'By turns funny, brilliant, sharp, savage, and surprising, this novella in poem-prose is compulsively readable and intellectually sustaining, as well as being a terrific feat of imagination and linguistic legerdemain. In Stroll On James Russell has invented the perfect form for his good-humouredly caustic outlook on things. All human life is there. Even Alma Cogan'. - Ian Patterson 'I devoured Stroll On with relish (and a side order of quadrupley-fried sweet potatoes). It's very clever and very funny (Neither/Do orgasms last long but they remain popular). Everyone who's worth it should read it'. - Andy Mayer 'All this and his eye for telling details make James Russell a true story teller and a true poet'. - Lee Harwood
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781912211708
- ISBN-10: 191221170X
- Publisher: Knives Forks and Spoons
- Publish Date: April 2021
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.26 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.37 pounds
- Page Count: 108
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