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Santiago
Cheryl Follon
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Description for Santiago
Paperback. Highly unusual, highly entertaining third collection by a young Scottish writer in which eighty-one everyday objects, concerns and states are given a voice. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 233 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
A number of years back, our author went to seek out a book by some ancient Greek thinker - the name starting with an L, or perhaps a C - called On Delight of the Nature of Things, or maybe In Delight at the Nature of Things. Either way, it turned out the book didn't exist. Our author found lots of stuff on measuring the circumference and mass of the planet Earth, and lots of pages about salt, dirt and water, but not the book that she was looking for. So, in the end, she decided to write the book ... Read more
A number of years back, our author went to seek out a book by some ancient Greek thinker - the name starting with an L, or perhaps a C - called On Delight of the Nature of Things, or maybe In Delight at the Nature of Things. Either way, it turned out the book didn't exist. Our author found lots of stuff on measuring the circumference and mass of the planet Earth, and lots of pages about salt, dirt and water, but not the book that she was looking for. So, in the end, she decided to write the book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373355
SKU
V9781780373355
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About Cheryl Follon
Cheryl Follon was born in Ayrshire, where she grew up. She studied Law and then English and Scottish Literature at Glasgow University before taking an MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin, and now teaches at a college of further education in Glasgow. She has received two writer's bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, and has published three collections ... Read more
Reviews for Santiago
'Idiosyncratic, bright as new paint, at times enigmatic, at times as clear as water, Cheryl Follon's Santiago is a collection - are they prose poems? are they vignettes? - unexpected and colourful as contemporary life, vivid with dailiness, packed with unusual but strangely accessible ways of looking. It is a world in which a museum sapphire, considering, or a well's ... Read more