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Description for Stalking Paloma
paperback. Stalking Paloma is award-winning poet Ifor Thomas's follow-up to his Welsh Book of the Year shortlisted Body Beautiful. Central to this collection is an arresting and original sequence exploring the obsessive nature of fandom and its pursuit through social media. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
Stalking Paloma is award-winning poet Ifor Thomas's follow-up to his Welsh Book of the Year shortlisted Body Beautiful. Central to this collection is an arresting and original sequence exploring the obsessive nature of fandom and its pursuit through social media. Staking out the territories of Facebook and Twitter, Thomas is witness to the interplay of intimacy and alienation which has increasingly come to define twenty-first century life. Elsewhere, his other preoccupations come to the fore: the changing face of Cardiff, negotiations with the past, mortality, and poetry - and the personalities that populate his art. With a love of ... Read more
Stalking Paloma is award-winning poet Ifor Thomas's follow-up to his Welsh Book of the Year shortlisted Body Beautiful. Central to this collection is an arresting and original sequence exploring the obsessive nature of fandom and its pursuit through social media. Staking out the territories of Facebook and Twitter, Thomas is witness to the interplay of intimacy and alienation which has increasingly come to define twenty-first century life. Elsewhere, his other preoccupations come to the fore: the changing face of Cardiff, negotiations with the past, mortality, and poetry - and the personalities that populate his art. With a love of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908069665
SKU
V9781908069665
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-18
About Ifor Thomas
Ifor Thomas forged his reputation as a performance poet, his work more at home on the stage than tucked between the leaves of a poetry book. He has won the John Tripp Award for spoken poetry and been a prize-winner in the Cardiff International poetry competition. His poems have been widely published and anthologised. His earlier work, the best-selling Unsafe ... Read more
Reviews for Stalking Paloma
In Ifor Thomas we have a real 21st Century voice; a voice that can make itself heard above the roar of traffic and the noise of kids as they come out of school. Ifor's is the kind of poetic voice we need in these loud times. Listen to it now.A" Ian MacMillan