Ok – very proud to announce this. Rescue Contraptions, my new collection from tall-lighthouse will be launched in Antenna Studios, Crystal Palace on Wed 29th June.
Recommend getting in early to book a place below, seats booking up extremely quickly – and you’ll be hearing a lot more about this !
Early responses to Rescue Contraptions :
” For someone who makes such a virtue out of plain-speaking honesty, there’s also a discreet flamboyance at play in Joe Duggan’s work. … giving each word its exact weight and importance and something beyond that. … he can find himself ‘time-jumping ceasefires’ in different countries, imagine a fresh Oscar Wilde bon-mot or keep Youssop Matada suspended and on repeat, high in our minds over East Sheen in a feat of heart-stopping reportage. Yes, honest and real, but superbly and artfully executed, too. Take a long drink.”
“Whether talking about family, country, teaching, or mortality, Joe shares with us the weight of his experiences. His nimble lyricism and style allow us to pick up and hold these moments so that we may appreciate the world’s gravity, rather than be subdued by it.”
“A big gut punch… moving and engaging and funny and brilliant. I don’t read much poetry but then I read some, like yours, which is so powerful and effecting and I wonder why I don’t read more. It’s like you’ve ripped your heart into bits and stapled it all over the page.”
“Simply stunning. It took me there, and it got me right there, in the gut and in the heart.”
-Gill Wing
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