&lsquoKennard&rsquos distinctive voice &ndash surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly selfdeprecating &ndash has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets&rsquo &ndash Tristram Fane Saunders, TLSA Telegragh, Irish Times, Guardian and The Week Book of the YearNone of the Old Testament prophets were especially happy or confident in their calling, but Jonah was the only one who rejected it outright, disobeying direct instruction from God and literally running away. In The Book of Jonah, Luke Kennard transforms the unique and awkward position Jonah&rsquos story occupies in scripture &ndash part dream, part joke, part provocation &ndash into a madcap picaresque which marries the sacred and the absurd.Though Jonah&rsquos encounter with the whale is most commonly interpreted as the story of a reluctant prophet being punished by his maker, Kennard&rsquos Jonah is more wily business traveller than seer. Taking his instruction instead from nongovernmental organizations, arts development agencies and publicrelations gurus, this Jonah keeps relentlessly busy, accepting any assignment that will take him further away from Nineveh and drown out the word of God in his ears. On his travels he meets errant writers, fixers, artists and consultants, but nobody who can give him a sense of what his work might be beyond a fivestar capitalist purgatory in a series of exotic locations. What would it mean to be a prophet &ndash or even a false prophet...

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