{"id":1139,"date":"2010-11-14T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T11:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2013-11-16T01:26:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T01:26:53","slug":"1139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/11\/1139\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch: Steak &#038; Stations &#038; Kalagora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=967\" target=\"_blank\">Steak &amp; Stations<\/a> reports from a landscape of contrasts and contradictions: of speed and consumption,   haute cuisine and isolated railway platforms; from nocturnal inner-city encounters to rural wildernesses where schoolgirls \u2018climb into the wind\u2019&#8230; <span>In this exhilarating debut collection, Michael Egan has developed a style of his own, a conversational staccato that compels you to reconstruct his dark, fragmented micro-narratives piece by piece. Shot through with surreal humour, experimentation and a keen political sensibility, these poems offer a peep-hole into the mysteries of domesticity, relationships and modern society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/classic\/cover-images\/egan_cover_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"200\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0 <img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/classic\/cover-images\/kalagora_cover_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=964\" target=\"_blank\">Kalagora<\/a>, the dazzling debut collection by Indian-born poet Siddhartha Bose, the cities of Kolkata, Mumbai, New York and London are transformed into sites of fractured vision. Bose has created a volatile, dynamic poetics in which love and longing compete with the hybrid, multicultural cityscape. A five-part structure reflects this multiplicity: \u2018Prolectric\u2019 and \u2018Epilepsis\u2019 book-end sequences on childhood and initiation (\u2019Sunya\u2019), love (\u2019Maya\u2019) and the city (\u2018Nagri\u2019). <em>Kalagora<\/em> is a Hindi neologism meaning black man \/ white man; this book tells his story.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 1 December, 8pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Poetry Library<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Southbank Centre<br \/>\nLondon SE1 8XX<br \/>\n0844 847 9910<\/p>\n<p><em>Free entry<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/find\/literature-spoken-word\/tickets\/penned-in-the-margins-54142\" target=\"_blank\">Booking required<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steak &amp; Stations reports from a landscape of contrasts and contradictions: of speed and consumption, haute cuisine and isolated railway platforms; from nocturnal inner-city encounters to rural wildernesses where schoolgirls \u2018climb into the wind\u2019&#8230; In this exhilarating debut collection, Michael Egan has developed a style of his own, a conversational staccato that compels you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}