Squeak, Budgie! (Paperback)

John Gohorry

ISBN 10: 199967426X / ISBN 13: 9781999674267

Verlag: Smokestack Books, Middlesborough, 2019

Paperback. John Gohorry has been talking to a budgie called Pipsqueak. A parakeet fresh out of Paradise, Pipsqueak is a popinjay, a polyglot and a polymath. And somebody has definitely been rattling his cage. Following in the tradition of John Skelton's sixteenth century satire, Speak, Parrot! Pipsqueak offers an irreverent commentary on the follies and failures of our age from bird-brains on twitter and tabloids parroting lies to politicians talking cuckoo. 'Alternating between Rime Royal and satirical songs with medieval Latin choruses, Pipsqueak gets his beak into Brexit, Trump, the refugee crisis, the rise of neo-Fascism, UK/Russian tensions, USA/North Korean tensions, the royal wedding, the World Cup, the Chequers agreement, cabinet resignations, the Windrush scandal, the implosion of the Tory party and culminating in the seceding of the UK from the European Union in March 2019. This is one sick parrot. A satire in verse about Brexit. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781999674267

Inhaltsangabe:

John Gohorry has been talking to a budgie called Pipsqueak. A parakeet ‘fresh out of Paradise’, Pipsqueak is a popinjay, a polyglot and a polymath. And somebody has definitely been rattling his cage. Following in the tradition of John Skelton''s sixteenth century satire, Speak, Parrot! Pipsqueak offers an irreverent commentary on the follies and failures of our age – from bird-brains on twitter and tabloids parroting lies to politicians talking cuckoo.

''Alternating between Rime Royal and satirical songs with medieval Latin choruses, Pipsqueak gets his beak into Brexit, Trump, the refugee crisis, the rise of neo-Fascism, UK/Russian tensions, USA/North Korean tensions, the royal wedding, the World Cup, the Chequers agreement, cabinet resignations, the Windrush scandal, the implosion of the Tory party and culminating in the seceding of the UK from the European Union in March 2019. This is one sick parrot.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: John Gohorry was born in Coventry in 1943. He taught in Further and Higher Education for many years, the last 35 in North Hertfordshire. He has published nine collections and thirty pamphlets, including Samuel Johnson’s Amber, The Age of Saturn, Thirty-Three Ostrich Cadenzas and Not a Silent Night (all published by Shoestring).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Squeak, Budgie! (Paperback)
Verlag: Smokestack Books, Middlesborough
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: new