Poppy Joseph Minden

ISBN 9781800172715

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

COLLECTION)

‘a master poet and one who is unafraid of turning his honed and crafted style to longer form poems’ THE GULL MAGAZINE

PUBLICATION DATE 24th November 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th January 2023

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 80pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE DCF Poetry

Sales Points

• Debut collection from New Poetries VIII contributor, whose work has also appeared in Poetry Review, Stand, Blackbox Manifold & The Rialto

• Poppy is, at one level, a kind of research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme, using documentary evidence, prose poem, personal testimony and dream narrative

• Begun while working as a Development Officer for the National Lottery Heritage Fund, these poems are a radical approach to cultural memory and the heritage industry

• Poems exhume the sentimental violence at the root of Englishness, tied to the conflicted flower-symbol of the collection’s title

About The Author

Joseph Minden is a poet and teacher based in Brighton. He is the author of the verse fairy tale, Soft Hans, published by The Koppel Press, as well as the pamphlets Diptych Brian, The Beef Onion (with Will Harris and Hugh Foley) and Derivatives (with Kat Addis), all published by The Minutes Press. A frequent collaborator with musicians, his text Micrographia was set to music by composer Laurence Osborn and performed by The Riot Ensemble, and a performance of his long poem ‘Backlogues,’ improvised with the band Sweat, exists online thanks to the87press.

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