Telling Tales - Patience Agbabi

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015Tabard Inn to Canterb''ry Cathedral,Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,Chaucer Tales, track by track, it''s the remixFrom below-the-belt base to the topnotch;I won''t stop all the clocks with a stopwatchwhen the tales overrun, run offensive,or run clean out of steam, they''re authenticand we''re keeping it real, reminisce this:Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business.In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-century remix of Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller''s Tale to the Wife of Bath''s in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.Celebrating Chaucer''s Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi''s newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain''s most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.