Bleak but wonderful ... familiar, and of course funny. Alan BennettDark, funny and twisted, but surprisingly tender. A.L. KennedyCouples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the nature of codependency of two people who want to be together, but at the same time cannot help but push each other away. The layout of the book is itself a commentary on the phenomenon the poems are placed in their own couples, pairs that face each other across the page. Sometimes they exchange a glance, sometimes they stand sidebyside, staring out into the abyss only when the book is closed, and they are in darkness, do they truly come together. Originally published on Valentines Day 2013, the sevenyear itch has brought Michael Stewart back to his old flame for a new edition in 2020 reworking the original poems, and adding a dozen more. The result is an unnervingly perceptive volume, to be shared with your other half at your own risk you may never look at a couple, or each other, the same way again.

Binding: Paperback;48 pages; Publisher: Valley Press; Classification: DCF; Weight: 190 g; Dimensions: 134 x 202 x 12

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