Whisked away like an illusionist's cape or shaken out in the street, Dust Sheet throws off a cloud in which the world is made strange.
Here, the everyday is perpetually on the point of tipping over into mystery: a disused phone box becomes a portal, a cup of coffee swims with visions, a discarded surgical glove points towards a parallel reality.
Here, people are driven by their obsessions: drinking rainwater with a fork or trying to formulate a new theory of everything.
In this universe, imaginary figures – the contrarian, the imperfectionist – exist alongside the marginal of history – the Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo and the Dutch biologist Jan Swammerdam.
Informed by philosophy, with a lyric sensibility and an appetite for formal variety, the poems in Dust Sheet seek to restore and re-enchant the overlooked.
- ISBN10 1844719057
- ISBN13 9781844719051
- Publish Date 22 November 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 July 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Salt Publishing
- Format Hardcover (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 64
- Language English
- URL http://saltpublishing.com/products/dust-sheet-9781844719051