Death Comes for the Poets

John Hartley Williams & Matthew Sweeney.

This very black comedy, reveals a different scenario of contemporary poetry. It skirmishes in the poetry wars, vicious rivalries, envy and literary corruption, culminating in a series of terrifying murders.

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The world of contemporary poetry is a place of quiet, bookish people, preoccupied with delicate epiphanies and quiet lyrical effusions. Or is it? Matthew Sweeney and John Hartley Williams, in this very black comedy, reveal a different scenario - skirmishes in the poetry wars, vicious rivalries, envy and literary corruption, culminating in a series of terrifying murders.

Who or what is behind this? The entire literary world is in uproar. And what about the comic book hero Bard Slayer? Why do graffiti pictures of a caped aerialist come to be sprayed on to walls everywhere? A young Londoner called Joe Biggs and his Glaswegian girl friend Naily Dunbar stumble on the answer to the riddle and a desperate confrontation takes place in a moonlit bay along the southern coast of England.

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Diese äußerst schwarze Comedy zeigt ein etwas anderes Bild von zeitgernössischer Poesie. Offenbart wird ein Krieg der Poesie. Grausame Rivalitäten, Korruption, Eifersucht und Neid vereint in einer Serie von fürchterlichen Morden.

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