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Telling Tales

ISBN-13: 9781782111573
ISBN-10: 1782111573
Edition: Main
Author: Patience Agbabi
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback 144 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781782111573
ISBN-10: 1782111573
Edition: Main
Author: Patience Agbabi
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback 144 pages

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Telling Tales (ISBN-13: 9781782111573 and ISBN-10: 1782111573), written by authors Patience Agbabi, was published by Canongate Books in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Telling Tales (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.31.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015

Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,
Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,
Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix
From below-the-belt base to the topnotch;
I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch
when the tales overrun, run offensive,
or run clean out of steam, they're authentic
and we're keeping it real, reminisce this:
Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business.

In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-Century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.

Celebrating Chaucer's Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi's newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.

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