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Telling Tales
[Paperback - 2015]
patience agbabi
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Publisher: Canongate Uk | ISBN: 9781782111573 | Pages: 144
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015

Tabard Inn to Canterb ry Cathedral,
Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,
Chaucer Tales, track by track, it s the remix
From below-the-belt base to the topnotch;
I won t stop all the clocks with a stopwatch
when the tales overrun, run offensive,
or run clean out of steam, they re authentic
and we re keeping it real, reminisce this:
Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business.

In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-century remix of Chaucer s Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller s Tale to the Wife of Bath s in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.

Celebrating Chaucer s Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi s newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain s most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.

About the Author

Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, and her first novel for children, The Infinite, the first in the Leap Cycle series, was published in 2020.

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