Back and the Front of It

by Bensley, Connie

• ISBN13: 9781852245184
• ISBN10: 1852245182
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

Connie Bensley's poems are sharply satirical, often poking fun at social pretence and suburban pretension. They present a comedy of manners in which her often mismatched characters are bounced between love, death and disappointment. The Back and the Front of it gives both sides of the argument, the dashed hopes of one, the false expectations of the other.

Table of Contents

Apologia	p. 9
The Back and the Front of It	p. 10
Taking a Taxi to a Wedding	p. 11
Rewards	p. 12
In Passing	p. 12
The Go-Between	p. 13
Sanatorium	p. 14
Politesse	p. 16
'The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living'	p. 17
Natural Selection	p. 18
Cut	p. 18
Twelve Things I Don't Want to Hear	p. 19
Emperor	p. 20
Lodger	p. 21
Birth Day	p. 22
Grit in the Oyster	p. 23
Get a Life	p. 24
Insomnia	p. 25
Time Traveller	p. 26
Bonus	p. 27
Reflection	p. 28
English Dictation	p. 29
The Visit	p. 30
Holding Hands in the Movie Show	p. 31
Metropolitan	p. 32
Levelling	p. 33
Leviathan	p. 34
The R Word	p. 35
Escape	p. 36
Ice Cream	p. 37
At Kill-Two-Birds	p. 38
Getting Out of Hand	p. 39
In the Palm of His Hand	p. 40
Faint Hopes	p. 41
What Went Wrong?	p. 42
House Detective	p. 42
Impediment	p. 43
Home Truths	p. 44
Time to Part	p. 45
Absconded	p. 46
The Melon Seller	p. 47
The Yellow Scarf	p. 48
The Aspirant	p. 49
The Old Black Magic	p. 50
The Upper Hand	p. 51
I Am Not Myself Today ...	p. 52
At Madame Tussaud's	p. 53
Elephants	p. 54
Keeping on Top of Things	p. 55
Next Please	p. 56
Wanting Gertie	p. 56
Among the Dead Men	p. 57
Mesalliance	p. 58
Carer	p. 59
Good Girl	p. 60
Reunion	p. 61
Friend	p. 62
Musical Chairs	p. 63
Convalescence	p. 64
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