Non so l'inglese e probabilmente nemmeno il traduttore e probabilmente nemmeno Haddon.
Ad un certo punto ho pensato di avere a che fare col traduttore automatico di Google ma evidentemente no, è solo la follia di Haddon e del suo editore.
Per fare un esempio:
"Tre troll lottano con un brandello insanguinato
Che non morirà, le taverne ruggiscono e scintillano
sul molo sudicio e l'uomo-forbice
Caccia il drago attraverso quei piccoli sentieri
Che promettono l'alba al mare, torte
Al pistacchio e minareti ma che curvano, sempre,
Indietro a quella lunga notte nella stanza dei bambini.
(...)"

" Oggi un vecchio ha avuto un infarto
E ha distrutto la cabina di segnalazione.
Non puoi ignorare questo tipo di cosa.
Ma nell'insieme
Cerco di vedere i visitatori
Come nuvole o colline
(...)"

Ma cosa ho letto?

Lovely--gorgeous language, sound, and images.

Don't take it personally, Mark Haddon. I just don't really care for poetry.

I couldn't follow the logic of the book's organization. And most of the poems fell flat for me. Haddon is definitely a better novelist!

I read these out-loud while a guitarist and a drummer practiced beneath my feet.

Some of these poems I really got and loved, some had literary allusions that I had no idea about, and went right over my head. But what I did get, I liked, particularly the satirical, self-aware ones like "This Poem is Certificate 18," "Poets" and "The Facts." Others did what only good poetry can do, which is implant an image in your mind so aptly and so suddenly that you can't help but forever see the world as the poet does. Consider, in "Trees" this description of the grandeur of a tree in the wind:

You wIll be fitting a heated towel rail one day
and see, through the Louvre window,
a shoal of olive green fish changing direction
in the air that swims above the little gardens.

Anyway, what's not to like in the poem "Great White" with an opening line like this: "Shark attacks were rare in Castle Brompton."

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Not a huge poetry fan, I listened to this audio to satisfy the read harder challenge 2015 #17.

Coolest cover ever with a moveable paper wheel...unfortunately, I only liked a couple of the poems contained within.

Great author, but aside from a few gems in this collection, his poetry is rather...for lack of a better word: bland - and forgettable. Shame, I generally really like his work.

i think i like mark haddon the novelist more than mark haddon the poet, but maybe that's just me. the book is entertaining, though.

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea is Mark Haddon's first collection of poems. This book was written after Haddon wrote his novel The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Nighttime. I thought most of the poems in this book were well written. Mark Haddon is a really good writer, and I loved The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Nighttime. The words "The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea" appears in the first poem.

I bought his book of poetry because I loved the Curious Incident so much. This is so-so. Didn't love it, but I didn't hate it.