Just published: Tim Allen's Peasant Tower
by Michael Peverett
Disengagement Books is delighted to announce the publication of Peasant Tower, Tim Allen's latest poetry book.
Peasant Tower is a book-length poem that ranges by public transport across chequerboard city centres. The aesthetics of Aragon, Queneau and X-Ray Spex collide to pierce stratiform mundanity with shafts of disorienting light.
Peasant Tower by Tim Allen.
Published: 2021.
Paperback.
Pages: 50.
Price: £8.50 (UK) $12.10 (US) €10.00 (Europe) $15.40 (Australia) $14.60 (Canada)
Sample extract:
eggshell dates frock shop walk-in wrecking ball
passenger absently watches mid-air fuel change
unbaptised bee tumbles in through fire door
filing system has feelings just as the dirty peanut does
brown wine with a head wins plain grey pennant
he does penance for coveting her pittance
what happened to him hasn’t happened in her notebook
on first name terms with happy history teachers
patriot larger than a country is smaller than this city
ceremonial matchstick archly complaining
film director stands out in swarm of snappers
litter on radar skittles behind vehicle
skis clutter up left luggage
get your tongue around the yawn of an afternoon prayer
bums and faces but no overheads
stories in which young men’s wallets are cuckoo clocks
incinerator in church cellar
a bird with eleven feet gets accepted by the establishment
messing around with an extraction fan
emasculated by a dowsing stick
subeditor crosses out coincidences in crossword
e.g. bus shelter in cathedral crypt
gull on its tod on refuse tip reads scorched love letter
vintage carnival route empty of the peanut
she stands back-to-front before a lost child
motorcycle sidecar carrying a demolished block of flats
(c) Tim Allen, 2021.
Steve Spence's review in Litter:
https://www.littermagazine.com/2021/08/review-peasant-tower-by-tim-allen.html
Billy Mills' review in Elliptical Movements:
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/recent-reading-november-2021/
Disengagement Books enquiries: please email michaelpeverett AT live DOT co DOT uk
