Alan Burns: CELEBRATIONS W27 [2019] paperback POETS these deployments were not undertaken

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a group of family and friends gather at Harry Denholm's country house in Kent

'A groundbreaking work

compelling illogic and unchained whimsy' Sunday Times

violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other

Alan Burns: CELEBRATIONS W27 [2019] paperback POETS these deployments were not undertakenCelebrations, Alan Burns's third novel, brings the inherent violence and oppression so apparent in Europe after the Rain into the setting of a family owned factory, where social hierarchies, legal structures and humiliation keep the workers in line. By bringing the differences between workers sharply into focus, Burns creates a choking atmosphere of oppression and exploitation heightened and upended by his trademark aleatoric style, peppering with