Bøger af Matt Duggan

All it takes is one look. One look for twelve-year-old Sydney and her nine-year-old brother Turk to know that everything has changed. The farm where their Uncle Frank and Aunt Lily used to live is gone, and along with it, their dreams of a "happily ever after." No safe place to hide from all that had gone wrong in their world; no one to tell them that everything would be alright. No one, even, to say that hopping a freight train and heading West probably wasn't the greatest idea they'd ever had. The farm had been their destination, but in its place was a strange new subdivision: The Royal Woods. Rather than return home and admit defeat, Sydney and Turk embark on the adventure of a lifetime in a world where fantasy and reality collide-where chickens ride ponies, where golf putters are magic, and where children survive on the strength of their own wits. In The Royal Woods, you never know what will happen next.

A compelling and subversive, sly and sexy novel about an addictive love affair, a destructive friendship, a cherry 1976 Buick Electra, and a ceremonial gun once owned by Adolf Hitler. Cherry Electra was listed in the Globe and Mail's top 100 picks of 2010. "Matt Duggan's Cherry Electra is raunchy fun in the way of Elmore Leonard via the Coen brothers with a dash of Tarantino. If a novel could be a great drive-in movie, this would be it." - Andrew Pyper, author of Killing Circle. "Compressed irony, sensory verve and sardonic bite sum up the novel's voice - except where it raises lovely twinges of the heartbreaking." - Jim Bartley, Globe and Mail. "A clever and satisfying bit of cottage-country gothic... an entertaining psychological thriller that will leave readers, at the cottage or elsewhere, rushing to keep up." - Quill and Quire. "It's rare to come across something that manages to both so sadly astute and infectiously, vibrantly witty, able to point to the black hole of human shortcomings and find something sparkling in the void." - Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star. "Fast, fun, and furious." - Ray Robertson, author of David. "Matt Duggan's Cherry Electra is a raunched up love story, a friendship gone feral, a mind-smack intoxication. Irreverent, revved, sexy and hilarious." - Lisa Moore, author of February

"Matt Duggan is a rare breed in a poet. Productive and reflective, his work is both contemplative and accessible in the best possible sense, and gives us a glimpse into a world that is nourishing and refreshing. These poems firmly rooted in the tradition of traveller poets, offer the excitement of arrival, the enjoyment of being located and the estrangement of leaving. As Duggan notes in 'Slipping Away from the Radar' we often see the solitary shoreline, away from the mundaneness of modern life. In this startling new collection, Duggan takes us along on a journey through the spectrum of emotions that each we, as readers have come to expect in this poet's work." ~Andrew Taylor, Author of Radio Mast Horizon and March (Shearsman Books), Editor at erbacce-press, M-58 and erbacce, Senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Nottingham Trent University

A collection of poetry from one of the UK's more important new voices. 'Woodworm' showcases the talent that Matt Duggan has already hinted at with a selection of chapbooks, in an expansive and vital collection of bleeding edge poetry. This is one you genuinely can't afford to miss.