The Working Classic is a collection of poetry, interviews, and essays with Aaron Kent. These diverse texts attempt to showcase how a gentrified creative industry routinely ignores working class voices unless that voice is an act of appropriation by a middle or upper class individual. Through a history of struggling with his own accent and upbringing, Kent showcases a working class poetics that aims to present both a reality of experience and a subversion of expectations. The interviews, essays, and reviews of Kent's work are a hostile depiction of how establishment arts attempt to set out the guidelines under which working class voices are allowed to participate, while the poems prove that working class voices can offer more than schadenfreude. "A definite classic; Kent continues to find new words and new forms to peel back the layers of the self. Non-linear, unpredictable and always surprising, this is a book only Kent could conceive of , and certainly one that nobody else could write" - Andrew McMillan For Fans Of: J. H. Prynne, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anthony Anaxagorou

About the Author
Aaron Kent is a working-class writer and publisher from Cornwall. His work has been praised by J. H. Prynne, Gillian Clarke, Andrew McMillan, Andre Bagoo, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Abdul Kadeer El-Janabi, Ian Duhig, and John McCullough. His poetry has been translated into Latvian, French, Persian, and Kernewek (Cornish). Aaron was awarded the Awen medal from the Bards of Cornwall for his poetry pamphlet The Last Hundred.


Book Information
ISBN 9781739393915
Author Aaron Kent
Format Paperback
Page Count 150
Imprint The 87 Press
Publisher The 87 Press