Telling Tales

‘Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, /Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, /Chaucer Tales, track by track, it’s the remix /From below-the-belt base to the topnotch; /I won’t stop all the clocks with a stopwatch /when the tales overrun, run offensive, /or run clean out of steam, they’re authentic /and we’re keeping it real, reminisce this: /Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business.’

In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-Century remix of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller’s Tale to the Wife of Bath’s in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.

Celebrating Chaucer’s Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi’s newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain’s most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.