The Third Mandarin by Frank Kuppner Carol Ann Duffy one-to-one readings

one-to-one readings

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Frome Festival

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The Third Mandarin by Frank Kuppner Carol Ann Duffy one-to-one readingsFrank Kuppner's The Third Mandarin is made of 501 quatrains divided into five 'books'. Taken together, they collage an alternative Imperial China of drunk poets, grumpy sages, and sex starved emperors. Along the way Kuppner riffs on myriad forms, from love letters and prophecies to drinking songs and graffiti. As a storyteller, Kuppner sticks faithfully to the path of least significance. His is a poetry of things that might happen in a minute or two,