Electroplating the baby

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Electroplating the baby

Jo Shapcott

Bloodaxe Books, 1988

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Description

The title-poem of Jo Shapcott's astonishing first collection describes an experiment by a 19th-century French scientist who devised a way of mummifying bodies by giving them a metal coating. Not all Jo Shapcott's poems are as bizarre and gruesome as this tour-de-force, but all her tales of the unexpected are as disconcerting, and cover an enormous range of subjects and ideas. A Shapcott poem can be a dangerous place, and you may find yourself on shifting ground: you start off reading a funny, skilful poem, and then suddenly it's all been swept away to reveal some savage insight into science, sexual politics or what you thought was history.

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  • NCID
    BA49387022
  • ISBN
    • 1852240687
  • LCCN
    88051314
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Pages/Volumes
    64 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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