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Out for Air (Paperback) Loot Price: R270
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Out for Air (Paperback): Olly Todd

Out for Air (Paperback)

Olly Todd

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Out for Air is the exhilarating first collection by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd. Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are endless / beyond the cantilever / of reality'. Each poem is its own event: expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in precision engineering. Todd rewires T. S. Eliot's Waste Land in his strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is genius loci, the spirit of the place. From Manhattan's 'silky streets' and the Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things. 'I'm dazzled by this wonderful debut. Todd writes with a tangible physicality, solid as a curb, so that the language itself crunches, glides, grinds. A radically different way of experiencing the built and natural environment and an endlessly engaging, witty, serious and astute new voice.' LUKE KENNARD

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Imprint: Penned in the Margins
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2022
Authors: Olly Todd
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 978-1-913850-07-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading > Rollerblading & in-line skating
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading > Skateboarding & snakeboarding
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LSN: 1-913850-07-2
Barcode: 9781913850074

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