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Sharp wit is on full display in this book of poetry, which achieves an unsurpassed mastery of form while addressing subjects unsettling, deeply shocking, or absolutely sinister. With clarity and depictions of odd circumstances, this collection's secret weapon is the use of satireand sometimes pitch-black humorto provide sudden jolts of deep resonance.

Paul Groves is the author of Eros and Thanatos and Wowsers.

Our Family and Mr. Okuda	p. 7
Kington Encounter	p. 8
Lord Palmerston's Demise	p. 9
The New Axminster	p. 10
Grans 'R ' Us Sounded A Good Idea	p. 11
Strewth	p. 12
The Roman Punishment for Parricide	p. 13
Brain Drain	p. 14
Falling off the Chrysler Building	p. 15
Campanologists	p. 16
Chess	p. 17
Bungalow Boy	p. 18
Free Will, Amsterdam	p. 19
Listening to the Tapes	p. 20
Royal Visit: Midlothian Council House	p. 21
Anglo-Welsh	p. 22
Fly in a Hospital	p. 23
Reprieve	p. 24
Swimming the Atlantic	p. 25
Last Throes	p. 26
Incorporeal	p. 27
Beetle	p. 28
Settling Mother	p. 29
Suspended Animation	p. 30
The Annual Convention of Russian Undertakers	p. 31
Between Baroque and a Hard Place	p. 32
Belsen Funeral Urn	p. 33
Talking to the Wallpaper	p. 34
Dangerous Enchantment	p. 35
Rex	p. 36
Greenland Literati	p. 37
Punch and Judy	p. 38
Regression Therapy	p. 39
The Bearded Lady and the Manikin	p. 40
The Guy from West 72nd St.	p. 41
The Anniversaries	p. 42
Against Stereotype	p. 43
Money Spinner	p. 44
Unresolved	p. 45
The Wasp Trap	p. 46
In the Club	p. 47
A Rude Awakening	p. 48
One Careful Woman Driver	p. 49
A Change from Southsea	p. 50
Shell-Shocked	p. 51
Dead of Night	p. 52
Remembering Gilda with Bitter Affection	p. 53
The Mauve Tam-o'-shanter	p. 54
A Pony Struck by Lightning	p. 55
Welterweight	p. 56
Chauvinist Verse	p. 57
Belle-Ile	p. 58
The Sadist's Children	p. 59
Simone	p. 61
Augury	p. 62
Exploit	p. 63
At the Literary Party	p. 64
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