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A new collection from Nigel Pantling, author of It’s Not Personal, Hip Hind Hook and Kingdom Power Glory.
In A Foreign Country, Nigel Pantling takes us to some strange places – the exotic, the imaginary and the rediscovered past – and for each he serves up a heady local brew, equal parts memory, invention, wit and menace. Here, North Korean tourists rub shoulders with Syrian adventurers, the newly dead with a City lothario, Popeye and Olive Oyl with Cold War warriors. Surprising and unsettling by turns, these poems are a whistle-stop journey though different times, countries and customs, enriched by deep personal experience.
Published April 2025
Praise for Nigel Pantling’s previous collections:
Nigel Pantling’s poems lift the lid on worlds closed to most of us. In language
that is straightforward and precise, subtly ironic, he lets facts tell their own, often
shocking, story.
– Carole Satyamurti
Timely, satirical and razor-sharp poems.
– Michael Symmons Roberts
Focusing on a wide range of entirely convincing characters and situations, his
entertaining short story poems have the accumulated power of a long and
absorbing novel.
– Michael Laskey
Nigel Pantling served as an officer in the British Army Of the Rhine during the Cold War and in Northern Ireland during ‘The Troubles’, as a Home Office civil servant under the Thatcher Government, and as a merchant banker during the years of rampant mergers and acquisitions of the 90s. He is now a strategic adviser to company chief executives, and lives in north London.
| Format | eBook (ePub), Paperback |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781914914454, 9781914914461 |
| Publication Year | April 2025 |
