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Suckle

  • ISBN-13: 9781905233212
  • Publisher: FLIPPED EYE
    Imprint: FLIPPED EYE
  • By Roger Robinson
  • Price: AUD $16.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 23/09/2009
  • Format: Paperback (210.00mm X 148.00mm) 66 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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"Suckle", Roger Robinson's much-anticipated follow up to "Suitcase", proves once and for all that Roger's unique territory is memory and its capital is Trinidad - somewhere within its borders are the answers to everything, if you just look hard enough. His approach, self-deprecating yet erudite, creates intoxicating poetry flavoured with the attitude and lingo of his Trinidadian homeland. Delving into the past with much more confidence than in his debut, "Suckle" is alive with the terror and beauty of youth, and memorable for the recurring dance crew Emperors: '...I was its only non breaking member./ I did the practical things, the support:/ Someone had to carry the linoleum./ Someone had to adjust the equaliser'. Simple things, profound truths.
Roger Robinson is a writer, skilled performer and lecturer on poetry and performance. Listed by Decibel as one of fifty writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon over the past five decades, he has toured with the British Council in Vietnam, the Philippines, Argentina, India and the Czech Republic and his workshops have been shortlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museums and Galleries. Roger's oeuvre encompasses the one-man shows: 'Shadow Boxer', 'Letter from My Father's Brother', and 'Prohibition'; a book of short fiction, 'Adventures in 3D' (Lubin & Kleyner, 2001); an album of spoken folk, 'illclectica' (Altered Vibes, 2004) and two poetry collections: 'Suitcase' (waterways, 2004) and the recently completed 'Suckle' (waterways, 2009).
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