Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi Richard Meier queer lyric mobilises all aspects

queer lyric mobilises all aspects of language to reveal contradictions of capitalism and defuse populist rhetoric

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From “those once endless years” of a childhood in wartime – tasting of Granny’s chicken soup

Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today

Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi Richard Meier queer lyric mobilises all aspectsSlip ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's Two Tongues, a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double takes of modern life and weaves from them poems of wit, grit and delicious abandon. In a landscape populated by levitating snailfish, sotto voce therapists, melancholic kittiwakes and collapsing stage sets, boundaries blur, languages merge, vision is partial and identity nothing