A Foreign Country

A Foreign Country

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A new collection from Nigel Pantling, author of Hip Hind Hook, Kingdom Power Glory and It’s Not Personal.

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

These are very accessible poems, well-crafted and shaped with deft choices of word and phrase – London Grip on Hip Hind Hook

Timely, satirical and razor-sharp poems – Michael Symmons Roberts on Kingdom, Power, Glory

Description

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. His poetry collections include It’s Not Personal, Hip Hind Hook, Kingdom Power Glory and most recently A Foreign Country.

Additional information

Format

eBook (ePub), Paperback
ISBN

978-1-914914-45-4, 978-1-914914-46-1
Publication Year

April 2025

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