Paradise Takeaway by Alistair Noon Joan Margarit to set bones

to set bones

The juxtaposition will leave you spellbound and melancholy in equal turns

His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head

national tyranny

ventriloquism and mapping the registers of the originals – poem 16 ghosts the voice of Frank O’Hara

Paradise Takeaway by Alistair Noon Joan Margarit to set bonesParadise Takeaway is a long poem with Luton Airport in it. Part memoir, part invention, it takes us along the bus and train routes of the London metropolitan area, not stopping at the eponymous fast food outlet en route to Aylesbury. On the way youll meet the Spirit of Rail, the Lady of Passport Control, a famous German philosopher, and other figures real and unreal. Warning: this book contains Marmite. Somewhere at the back of it all is Germany: A