The Thirty-one Legs of Vladimir Putin
Braidwood
:
Finlay Lloyd
,
2024
29239961
2024
single work
novel
'31 ordinary people around the globe have one startling thing in common - each is a doppelganger for Vladimir Putin. Each is approached by the Russian playmakers with an offer too good to refuse - a generous monthly payment to do nothing but wait until called upon, sometimes for years...
'This story spirits us off on a playful journey into the lives of a group of individuals whose physical attributes appear to matter more than who they may be. This comedic exploration of the role of the ordinary person in the exercise of power offers a striking reminder that, whoever we are, we are captured by the systems that govern us.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Tuesday's Child Is Full
Travancore
:
In Case of Emergency Press
,
2022
26549785
2022
selected work
poetry
'Since 2009, PS Cottier has been committed to posting a new poem each week on her blog, pscottier.com, usually on a Tuesday. That discipline has not only given her a collection of thirteen years of writing from which to choose the rich selection for this book, but also the playful title of the collection!
'Tuesday's Child is Full is a diverse, sprawling, wildly entertaining collection of poems from a poet at the very top of her game. She writes with a fearless accuracy and a sympathetic wit. Her poems are calm and profound and effortlessly display the universal in the domestic. She is a modern pastoral poet, not only celebrating the wild and untamed, but placing our experience of an urban everyday in a natural setting, whether that is the death of that most unheroic of pets, a guinea pig, or the act of contemplating a mango. Her poems have the power to awaken an appreciation of the eternal and beautiful all around us.' (Publication summary)
