Mark Haddon will be reading from his debut collection The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea at 12.30 pm tomorrow at Christ Church College, Oxford, as part of the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.
Tickets cost £6.50
"That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book of poetry will perhaps come as a surprise to his legions of fans. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here: the humanity of his voices, the dark humour and the uncanny ventriloquism. But he is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power and surreal invention. Here are bittersweet love-lyrics, lucid and bold new versions of Horace, comic set-pieces, lullabies, wry postmodern shenanigans and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages."
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