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Heat Wave

By (author) Julian Stannard

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Heat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret,â€˜What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!â€™ If a cabaret is full of high jinks it can also land punches â€“ truth can be masked by the burlesque and the grotesque: â€˜Tell all the truth but tell it slantâ€™. Luke Kennard has said of Stannardâ€™s writing, â€˜I know of few other poets who can write of cruelty, hysteria and disappointment with such levity and grace.â€™ Will Eaves speaks of a â€˜comic vitalityâ€™. Heat Wave seeks to unsettle and wrong-foot; it refuses to adopt a sententious or holier than thou attitudes regarding the many crises which confront us. The poems subvert as well as entertain. Critics have noted â€˜a tonal control and simultaneous considerations of matters mordant and gleeful.â€™ The reader might weep and laugh on the same page. The lyrical and the demotic might walk hand in hand.

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