Kingdomland Allen Rachael Granta Online EditorPaperback / softback
Kingdomland Allen Rachael Granta Online EditorPaperback / softback Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen - a writer of rare vision and flair.The world she creates is suffused…
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Kingdomland Allen Rachael Granta Online EditorPaperback / softback
Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen - a writer of rare vision and flair.The world she creates is suffused with surreal images and uncanny incidents. And yet, all too clearly, we recognise life here on earth, its everyday griefs, dysfunctions and injustices. Unexplained violences and strange metamorphoses take shape in the "glowering dusk".
Where a pet tarantula or mimic octopus might find itself beside glands and processed meats. Where distinctions between murder and bloodletting, corruption and consumption are blurred. Landscapes shift and identities dissolve: "the red bricks of the day" exist "in a woman's chest", a human presence is "embedded in the walls".
All appears changed, but familiar. Intercut with oblique verse fragments and a series of linked sequences, Allen blends elements of fiction and ekphrasis to create a haunting and