Deborah Tyler-Bennett
Pavilion - Deborah Tyler Bennett
Pavilion - Deborah Tyler Bennett
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome. The Brighton Pavilion is one of Britain's best loved follies. Built for the Prince Regent (later George IV) to entertain his mistresses, it is a Grade 1 listed building, a monument to dandyism and a museum of royal kitsch. Between the Pavilion and the ruined West Pier lies the coast of Greeneland, peep-shows and arcades, cheap thrills and expensive mistakes.
Deborah Tyler-Bennett's new collection is a celebration of the world of the English dandy, its gorgeous peacock feathers and fading glamour. Her cast of eccentric and complicated characters entertain their listeners at the bar, flashy and flamboyant as Brighton's fantasy Pavilion, revealing the sad truths and disturbing secrets behind their cheap make-up.
About The Maker: Deborah Tyler-Bennett
About The Maker: Deborah Tyler-Bennett
Deborah Tyler-Bennett is a poet and fiction writer. Over 400 of her poems and short fiction pieces have been published nationally and abroad. Deborah's current collections are Kinda Keats from Shoestring Press (2013), poems based on her residency at Keats House Hampstead, and a book of short fictions inspired by the music hall tradition, Turned Out Nice Again (King's England Press, 2013). Her collected poems are published in Clark Gable in Mansfield (2003) and selected poems can be found in Take Five edited by John Lucas (Shoestring Press, 2003), Pavilion (2010), Revudeville (2011) and Mytton … Dyer … Sweet Billy Gibson… (2011). Her poetry collection, called Anglo-Punk: Sonnets on the Life of Beau Brummell will be published in 2014 by Salmon Press. Her poems were recently translated into Romanian and broadcast on Radio Bucharest.
Deborah has promoted creative writing widely in the Leicestershire region. She co-authored several creative writing resources (with Mark Goodwin) for Leicestershire’s Open Museums and Artworks collections. She also produced an educational pilot, called The Ballad of Epping and Other Poems, to accompany the Artworks collection into schools.
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