All The Poems Contained Within Will Mean Everything To Everyone

by Joe Dunthorne

This is the story of one man's dream to edit a groundbreaking contemporary poetry anthology, of how that dream was actually a lot of work, what with reading many bad poems and also competent ones and handwriting rejection letters and using his wife's family money to pay postage and production costs, all while trying to bounce his newborn son to sleep. It is the story of the epiphanies that come with extreme tiredness: that maybe, just maybe, the greatest poetry book of all is one that contains no poems.

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

16 pages, Paperback

Published August 7, 2019

About the author

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, and is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize.

His poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies and has featured on Channel 4, and BBC Radio 3 and 4. A pamphlet collection, Joe Dunthorne: Faber New Poets 5 was published in 2010.

His first novel, Submarine, the story of a dysfunctional family in Swansea narrated by Oliver Tate, aged 15, was published in 2008.

Reviews

[Rhys Owain Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

‪A must-read for anyone who has ever attempted to write a 100-word author bio. Sit down with this and a cup of something when you get a chance.‬

[Željko Filipin · Rating 3 out of 5]

How not to publish a book.

[Tony · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very short book.

It is very funny.

You should read it.

It is not quite what you will be expecting.

I can say nothing else without spoiling it.

[Leslie Garza · Rating 2 out of 5]

I guess I didn't get it.