Telling Tales av Patience Agbabi

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<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015</b><br><i><br>Tabard Inn to Canterb''ry Cathedral,<br>Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,<br>Chaucer Tales, track by track, it''s the remix<br>From below-the-belt base to the topnotch;<br>I won''t stop all the clocks with a stopwatch<br>when the tales overrun, run offensive,<br>or run clean out of steam, they''re authentic<br>and we''re keeping it real, reminisce this:<br>Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business.<br><br></i>In <i>Telling Tales</i> award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-century remix of Chaucer''s <i>Canterbury Tales</i> retelling all of the stories, from the Miller''s Tale to the Wife of Bath''s in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.<br><br>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, <i>Telling Tal