Telling Tales - Patience Agbabi

\n \nSHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 \n \nTabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, \nPoet pilgrims competing for free picks, \nChaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix \nFrom below-the-belt base to the topnotch; \nI won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch \nwhen the tales overrun, run offensive, \nor run clean out of steam, they're authentic \nand we're keeping it real, reminisce this: \nChaucer Tales were an unfinished business. \n \nIn Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-Century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.\n \nCelebrating 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, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.\n