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He Used Thought as a Wife: An Anthology of Poems & Conversations (From Inside)

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Alone in this intersection of spoken waffle and poetry, there’s nothing else like Tim’s writing and it’s in top form here. It's a time that we will be likely trying to forget, but I can see myself revisiting this book many times. I often chuckle out loud, much I read for a second time, and I constantly feel like sharing pieces with others. Well done Tim for making the most of a Class A shitty situation and producing a book that will completely stand the test of time. I take it with me from the living room to the bedroom and vice versa, also if I don’t plan on reading in it.

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This was a recommendation from a tv programme and I thought it would be good to have a bit of humour amidst the crime I usually read. A collection of poems and conversations from inside the author's flat during England's first lockdown. Living alone, he teeters on the precipice of a breakdown, though he remains steadfastly in denial about his abject loneliness and the effect enforced solitude has had on his creative output, every good intention upended by distractions such as Come Dine With Me on the telly or craft IPAs in the fridge.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. But what at first seems like just a collection of stand-alone snippets of text manages to create a quietly effective, cohesive whole.

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Loved it, whilst simultaneously finding the trauma of relieving what it was like to love alone during lockdown quite brutal. In the meantime, I listened to music, I thought about all the books that I had read and above all, I felt like it was an act of resistance.But despite its pretentious title - all part of Key’s careful exaggeration of artistic pomposity - the book never feels too clever by half. Much in the same way as folk artist Richard Dawson, in these poems Key has a indescribable knack for blowing the inane and inconsequential up to absurd proportions to exemplify humanity and community.

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