Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925818222
Year: 2020
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing


Description:




Towards the End presents the
contemporary world as broken and dying, a world that is moving irreversibly
towards collapse as well as rebirth.

The collection begins with the speaker's
disillusion with the ideals of capitalism, and the ironic realisation that
happiness and prosperity may no longer be attainable. The middle section of the
collection reflects, with dark humour and a controlled anger, on the
dysfunction of our socio-political systems and the signs of their
disintegration. The final poems in the book imagine a universal humanity beyond
the failures of the contemporary world, and prophesy global resistance,
rejuvenation and revolution. The collection may be described as a fusion of
social satire, gothic dystopia and historical materialism, interwoven with
autobiographical reflection.