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Sweet, Like Rinky-Dink - by Mark Waldron (Paperback)

Sweet, Like Rinky-Dink - by  Mark Waldron (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Mark Waldron's fourth collection shows his always surreal work delivering even more surprises as he depicts the absurdity behind the posturing of human beings in society. Sometimes metaphysical, sometimes apparently confessional, often hilarious, they show our lives as both funny and sad, dark and light, silly and serious.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Sometimes metaphysical, sometimes apparently confessional, sometimes challenging, often hilarious, Mark Waldron's poems take you by the arm and usher you in to a dark/light, funny/sad, silly/serious world which is exactly what the actual world looks like if you creep up on it and take it by surprise. As human beings living in society we're supposed to keep what we really think hidden, but the poems of Sweet, like Rinky-Dink want to look at the absurdity behind our posturing, because in looking at it squarely in the face we might hope to have some freedom from it. Sweet, like Rinky-Dink is Mark Waldron's fourth collection, following Meanwhile, Trees (2016), published by Bloodaxe, The Brand New Dark (2008) and The Itchy Sea (2011), both from Salt.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>I get nervous for Mark Waldron's readers - I can hear them begin to laugh a little, becoming too comfortable too quickly, while reading a poem of his and I want to warn them. I want to yell at them to get out of the way, tell them that what's really happening is that they are about to get their hearts broken. Poor monkeys. - Matthew Dickman<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Mark Waldron was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in London. He works in advertising and lives in East London with his wife and son. He began writing poetry in his early 40s. He published two collections with Salt, The Brand New Dark (2008) and The Itchy Sea (2011), and two with Bloodaxe, Meanwhile, Trees (2016) and Sweet, like Rinky-Dink (2019).

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