{"product_id":"metropole-ken-bolton-9781923099425","title":"Metropole: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is an amusing asperity. And, for all its judgements, Metropole is rather forgiving. Irresistible, of course-and smart. - Arlo Banens, \u003cem\u003eThe Tune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work characterised by its 'degree zero' cool, Bolton would seem to have taken his American influences and refined them through an apparatus built of French cinema, nouveau roman, and contemporary art criticism: coolly conversational-but flexibly elastic-this work can contain multitudes. - Peter Goldsworthy, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcellent. - Millie Dickins, \u003cem\u003eAstrolabe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorose, counter-intuitive, something of a zany, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary landscape, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, grinning cheerfully, at the wheel of his 1952 Lancia Aurelia, \u003cem\u003e'Mandy'\u003c\/em\u003e, an image that belies the tales of later suffering - the affairs, the court appearances, the bad teeth - and speaking of teeth, the beautiful poems wrenched from the teeth of despair \u0026amp; written on the wrist of happiness \"where happiness happens to like its poems written best\" (in his inordinate phrase).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Bolton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1923099426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781923099425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.36d","brand":"Ken Bolton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440127521023,"sku":"9781923099425","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9fea4d3-abf6-4e2d-bd03-2b89da0366e3.jpg?v=1777180424","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metropole-ken-bolton-9781923099425","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}