Collected Contraptions
Peter McCarey's first full collection, comprising work from his five pamphlets, is an exhilarating journey on the U-bahns and runways of language: In a matter of hours / they can take you anywhere'. Collected Contraptions opens with water, rain and shadows; the inscription of the singer's mark' from the lost language of the Indus Valley civilisation shines from a Shakespeare sonnet; we are caught in a sci-fi spaghetti Western; a shady Czech smuggles a golem and a robot into pre-massacre Rwanda. Language shape-shifts, reinvents itself, before going on another road trip where stories are recited backwards and fast forward. Last is Tantris', an epic of intricate narrative whose message couldn't be more simple: Don't go: don't let the morning/ Turn your head with her shivering, thin grace.'Knopf DrA¼cken was on the roofrack, back in Fiat 500 mode a fuel injection, dual controls, 3-way catalyser, 4-wheel drive, 5 gears, 6 cylinders, in short a whole new sense to Fiat 500. ... (I saw a joiner play accordeon at an old folksa#39; Christmas party: he, while they were blithely jigging set three sheets in the wind, ... HaAek happened to be watching the clock when a message appeared on the dashboard .
| Title | : | Collected Contraptions |
| Author | : | Peter McCarey |
| Publisher | : | Carcanet - 2011-08-01 |
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