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    Money and Make-Believe is a frank and probing collection of emblematic poems interspersed with Hughes' responses to the reportage assignments he undertook as a press photographer in the north of England. During these encounters, he bore witness to society’s victims.
    For Hughes, giving up poverty is like giving up cigarettes, an old lady at the police station is left waiting ‘like a tap dripping in a darkened room’; and a pre-pubescent girl who has been raped is ‘a diminished thing tarnished by the smallest of nouns.’
    The poems are like isolated mood chambers or broken urns where memory spills out. However, the foreboding, darker elements are counterpointed by dualistic poetry full of joy, beauty, and ritualistic defiance, where the masks of reality are confronted and positive glimpses of salvation are salvaged.

    ‘storm the heavens for an answer,
    nurse my body closer,
    cupping my hands into yours,
    bear my spirit further through my bewilderment,
    your secret faith going back into the night
    down dusty lanes to lie my body
    in the duskiness of our room,
    over and over
    washing your flesh through my aching shores.’
    extract from Drinking on the Balcony













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    • Primary Category: Poetry
    • Additional Categories Literature & Fiction Books
    • Project Option: 5×8 in, 13×20 cm
      # of Pages: 72
    • Isbn
      • Softcover: 9798347504923
    • Publish Date: Jan 08, 2025
    • Language English
    • Keywords Simon Armitage, Hughes, UK, Oslo, poetry
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    John Hughes
    Oslo, Norway

    John Hughes was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, Great Britain in 1970. He has worked as a milkman, landscape gardener, newspaper photographer, occasional proof reader and a fish terminal goods inspector. He currently lives in Oslo, Norway, photographing art and antiques whilst working on his music project Love in Exile. He studied Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University under the guidance of Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Schmidt.

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