Bloodshot Monochrome

by Agbabi, Patience

• ISBN13: 9781847671530
• ISBN10: 1847671535
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-17
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Summary

"Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing old, from Northern Soul to contract killers, from the retro to the brand new. Whether resurrecting the dead in 'Problem Pages', playing out noir dramas in 'Vicious Circle', or capturing moments of her own life in perfect shapshot, Agbabi's verse is sublimely lyrical and spiked with gleeful humour."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Shots
Seeing Red	p. 3
Postmod	p. 4
Grey Area	p. 5
Shooting 'Ufo Woman'	p. 6
Not a 9/11 Poem	p. 7
'Gangsters'	p. 8
The London Eye	p. 9
On Turning on the TV ...	p. 10
Comedown	p. 11
Foreign Exchange	p. 12
North(west)ern	p. 13
Sol	p. 14
Monologues
The Siamese Twins	p. 17
Eat Me	p. 19
Skins	p. 20
Yore Just my Type	p. 22
Josephine Baker Finds Herself	p. 24
Heads	p. 25
Man and Boy	p. 26
Problem Pages
Contributors	p. 31
In Joy and Woe	p. 33
Two Loves I Have	p. 34
A Crowne of Sonnets	p. 35
My Light Is Spent	p. 36
Queen of Shadows	p. 37
Scorn Not the Sonnet	p. 38
O for Ten Years ...	p. 39
Not Death, but Love	p. 40
Send My Roots Rain	p. 41
Not Love but Money	p. 42
On 'The White House'	p. 43
Babes in the Basement	p. 44
Knew White Speech	p. 45
From Africa Singing	p. 46
Blood Letters
'Ruby, the Hypodermic DJ'	p. 49
R.A.P.	p. 50
Osmosis	p. 52
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe	p. 53
Step	p. 56
In Invisible Ink	p. 57
What's Black and White and Red All Over?	p. 58
Not the One They Read To Tell My Fortune	p. 59
Lines	p. 60
The Exchange	p. 63
Vicious Circle
Vicious Circle	p. 67
Notes	p. 75
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