Totally Cultured

by Dan Simpson (Author)

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  Paperback
  2018

  $27.49

  In his second collection, Dan Simpson looks back to childhood: a place of security in an economically and politically unstable world. As his fellow Millennials grow up into precarious living arrangements borne out of the housing crisis, they are turning back to the safety of childish things: comic book universes and superheroes; adult nursery schools and breakfast cereal cafes; reformed 90s boy- and girl-bands. Mashing up financial statistics and pop-culture, Dan reflects on the Instagram-worthy preoccupations of Generation Rent: bottomless brunch and smashed avocado on toast, artisanal coffee and craft beer, pop-up street-food and boutique festivals. These poems are both personal and political, bringing together a detached, data-driven analysis of the difficulties of a struggling generation with Dan's own childhood memories. By turns robust and vulnerable, the book is shot through with the sense of humour and linguistic dexterity for which Dan has built a reputation on the spoken word scene.