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The Nakedness of the Fathers

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Samuel Tongue

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In his new pamphlet Samuel Tongue explores the troubled marriage between sexuality and religion, ecology’s slow erasure from a planet in decline and the hybridity of life and death. These are poems which look at what faith offers to human causes, both political and personal, in a beautiful world ravaged by ugly gods.

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Samuel Tongue’s The Nakedness of the Fathers dexterously surveys the monster of capitalism via jaywalks, googleearth the ‘contagiousness’ of treadmills, sanitiser-slick supermarkets and the charade of prosperity. This is a landscape poetry ready and able to utilise the personal as a site of resistance, where father’s cry for ‘a mother in the dark’ and the world exists precariously, ‘a flux of ever-living fire.’…

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