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Selected Poems: 2013-2026

Selected Poems: 2013-2026

Kent, Aaron

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1837380538
ISBN13: 9781837380534
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Oct 2 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Aaron Kent's poems break mid-sentence. One clause starts, another finishes it, and what comes out of the join is usually grief, class, or a joke told at the worst possible moment. Selected Poems draws on thirteen years of work. The poems move between the tin coast of west Cornwall and a hospital ward at three in the morning, between night terrors and the ordinary things that carry on regardless. Kent writes trees rooted in the throat, a hole in the moon the size of a mechanic, a raccoon watching over a coma, ensuring surrealism has, at its core, a political edge. Throughout, threads of sleeplessness and fatherhood persevere, with his children arriving in these poems as luck, as terror, as the reason to keep count of the small moons of Saturn. He elegises without solemnity and argues politics at conversational volume. There is nobody else in Britain writing like this.

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