A01=David Herd
Author_David Herd
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Product details
- ISBN 9781857548181
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a story of life in the age of Mandelson: politician, aesthete, director of communication. Moderniser, trouble-shooter, king-maker, architect of New Labour, power-broker, agent, asset, confidant: Peter Mandelson is emblematically, and maybe literally, the major political figure of our age. But who's happy? Whatever happened to happiness as a political imperative? And whatever happened to the public good? Oh, and while we're at it, how come some people are more answerable than others? "Mandelson! Mandelson! A Memoir" wants answers to these questions and more: an account - why not? - of an unaccountable age. "Mandelson! Mandelson!" is formally a various book; this is very much part of its point. It incorporates, among other forms: the sonnet, the villanelle, a noh play, a prose poem, diagrams, pictures, poems in quatrains, lists, haiku-like observations, non-haiku-like observations, free verse, a photograph, a bank statement and a disclaimer.
David Herd is a poet, critic and teacher. His recent essays on poetry and politics have appeared in Almost Island, Parallax and PN Review. He lives in Kent.
