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Fourth and WalnutJeremy Over
Categories: 21st Century, British, Humour
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (88 pages) (Due Feb 2025) 9781800174603 £12.99 £11.69
Jeremy Over's fourth Carcanet collection is an exuberant book of experimental poetry tracking the movements of a happily wandering mind.
Awards won by Jeremy Over
Short-listed, 2020 The Wales Poetry Book of the Year (Fur Coats in Tahiti)
'A beautifully orchestrated hot-stepping set of riffs between the poet and the world ... Jeremy Over's Fourth and Walnut makes you want to stand up and read portions out to passersby, just for the sheer joy of what he brings to the speaking mind.'
Sampurna Chattarji 'Fourth and Walnut takes in minimalism, citation, erasure, drawing, linguistics and philosophy to create a book of gentle profundity and quiet magic. Under its spell, the question isn't why monk and mystic Thomas Merton and TV weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker appear in the same poem, but why they haven't before. Over discusses the rhinoceros as a symbol of surprise. After reading his poems, it would take more than a rhinoceros to surprise me, although I would be worried about the linoleum.' Tom Jenks Praise for Jeremy Over 'A restless experimenter and game-player with language' Ian McMillan, The Reader 'It is this nothing offered that makes Fur Coats in Tahiti such a rewarding read, because it leads to destinations unknown, a restless, constantly moving walk after not knowledge, but illumination, the unexpected relationship between word and word that opens a window to the world. It is, I realise as I write, a kind of Dada Zen book; what more can I say?' Billy Mills 'They also seem magical. Like magic words, or Latin mass: more powerful for all its uncertainty.' Joe Darlington, Manchester Review of Books 'Joyous panoplies of alphabets warble, blossom and assemble into word songs made simultaneously stately and playful here in Fur Coats in Tahiti. Folklore and plainsong play with Stein and then Whitman comes over, inviting so many alphabetic others to join in: Wordsworth via Jandl via Atkins via Ono via You makes something entirely new! Over's marvelous word worlds mesh and refresh all our delights in loving thinking musics of sound, sense and nonce. Slip on this luxurious garment of a book where the language weather is always perfect.' Lee Ann Brown 'In Fur Coats in Tahiti, Jeremy Over exuberantly defies expectations. These poems rollick as they explore relationships between sound and sense, interweave the surreal and the mundane, and conduct whimsical, unpredictable journeys. The work teems with intelligence and delight.' Carrie Etter 'I am in love with the new collection by Jeremy Over, building as it does on the work of his first two books with so much style and grace. The poems are in thrall to the magic of the image, exquisite timing and exuberant ambivalence. Which latter, for me, articulates exactly why dull certainties and conciliatory platitudes tend to sail over my head. Over's is a poetry of endless curiosity and intellectual generosity, inviting us to wander and wonder with the writer. The long poems and sequences capture a quality of musical improvisation, but the attention is pulled back, again and again, by unexpected lyrical detail; as if distraction (by beauty, by stupidity, by wonder) were the only true method. And it is.' Luke Kennard |
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