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SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015

Tabard Inn to Canterbry Cathedral,
Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,
Chaucer Tales, track by track, its the remix
From below-the-belt base to the topnotch;
I wont stop all the clocks with a stopwatch
when the tales overrun, run offensive,
or run clean out of steam, theyre authentic
and were 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 Chaucers Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Millers Tale to the Wife of Baths in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.

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

Author: Patience Agbabi
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 04/16/2015
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781782111573
Language: English