The Solex Brothers (Redux): And Other Prose Poems

by Luke Kennard

The Solex Brothers explores the fate of the individual - albeit a rather feeble individual - and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral absolution in narratives at once Fauvist and Baroque, exp

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 15, 2007

Reviews

[James Tingle · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, it seems I'm the first person to review this little beauty on here! I am surprised as this is a really enjoyable read and I looked it up just now to see what other reviewers thought about it and was shocked to see it bereft of even a solitary write-up...
This is his first book of poetry and I've read his next two as well- The Harbour Beyond the Movie and The Migraine Hotel and I did enjoy those two as they are both good collections, but this one stands out for me as his best. The thing I liked about this when I read it, quite a while ago now, is that its not a typical poetry book. Firstly, it has its own unique construction which is some sort of mixture of prose-poetry/short story/surrealism/humour/fairy-tale/fantasy and so you end up with something quite odd and yet it works very nicely. There is this wolf character who crops up throughout the poems and ties everything together as he gets into bizarre, funny situations and then other poems run in and out of the wolf ones, which sounds jarring, but again, it all somehow works...
I think this prose-poetry collection could easily be enjoyed by fans of poetry and people who normally wouldn't touch poetry with a barge pole as it isn't your regular, sometimes hard to decipher kind of thing, instead being very accessible and fun. I think fans of The Mighty Boosh television show and people who enjoy something a bit out of the ordinary generally will likely take to this short, yet rewarding little book.

[Z · Rating 4 out of 5]

The weirdest poetry collection I've ever read - in a good way. Every line was a surprise. Such creativity, so engaging.

[James Reeve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absurdism of the highest order