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O Positive

by Joe Dunthorne

Narrator Joe Dunthorne

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Length 43 minutes

Language English

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Summary
About the author
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O Positive is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction.

Adopting a sunny, genial tone, Dunthorne lures the reader to darker places, exploring death and dread, failure and regret - the 'lounge of our suffering'. Often, he catches us off-guard: a 'whiplash' effect where poems shift from laughter to slaughter in a moment. Impertinent owls, an immersive theatre troupe, ancient men from the Great War and idiot balloonists - such characters dramatise our human fancies and foibles, joining the protagonist in scenarios both humorously bizarre and all-too-familiar. These performances serve to probe and unpeel the layers of the self - all the way down to the raw.

Poetry

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, Wales. His debut novel, Submarine, was translated into twenty languages and made into an award-winning film by Richard Ayoade. His second novel, Wild Abandon, won the Encore Award. His third novel is The Adulterants. His stories have been published in McSweeney's, The Paris Review, Esquire, The Baffler and The Guardian - and have been twice shortlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. His widely acclaimed first collection of poems, O Positive, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019. He lives in London. He is currently working on a family memoir, Children of Radium.