A Year in the New Life

A Year in the New Life

by Jack Underwood

Narrated by Jack Underwood

Unabridged — 49 minutes

A Year in the New Life

A Year in the New Life

by Jack Underwood

Narrated by Jack Underwood

Unabridged — 49 minutes

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Overview

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Jack Underwood's poetry debut, Happiness (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular' (Guardian). Such qualities are on accomplished display in this anticipated new collection, as the poems mature and move on to a wide range of preoccupations, including imminent societal collapse and public unrest; the limits, myths and complexities of masculinity and fatherhood; and uncanny, often amusing scenarios, such as serving drinks to a gathering of fifteen babies or group kissing in Empathy Class. Throughout, incongruous and domestic subjects realign in skewed lyrics and thought experiments, intimately expressed in 'a new language / of the familiar' ('The Landing'). All is presented with a generosity and tenderness that makes the poet so unmistakable - and indispensable for the strange times in which we live.

Editorial Reviews

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"Jack Underwood's poems are exceptional in how they surrender to their own music, each one a kind of expertly controlled free-fall. In this tough and tender time, we need these poems of tenderness, of toughness, and of time." Natalie Shapero


"The glorious abundance of Jack’s wayward absurdism and imagism creates intellectual plot-points felt like dreams, a way to think about logic in a different way, a way to think about things and people and life in a different way, which is the intention of poetry." — Rachael Allen


"Jack Underwood demonstrates in A Year in the New Life that he’s one of the most innovative imagists and thinkers writing in the English language." — Anthony Anaxagorou

Product Details

BN ID: 2940172458408
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication date: 08/03/2021
Edition description: Unabridged
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