Out for Air
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Out for Air

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Out for Air

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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'. 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...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

' Out for Air is an inventive and alluring debut...With shades of Kleinzahler and Eliot, these poems explore angles and movement, friendship and distance, in a voice that is genuinely original, graceful and often strange.' - Martha Sprackland

'Through his words a whole world and potential opens up, a distillation of experience that feels universal and intimate.' - Nick Jensen

'Out for Air creates a world of familiarity gone strange, a world of signs of the human in motion, where the living in place becomes its constant study. It makes a hard-to-pin-down language which is all its own, and which mirrors its subjects' international scope, its playful, sometimes arch, worldview, and which announces a wholly original voice.' - Will Burns

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Publisher
Penned In The Margins
Year
2022
ISBN
9781913850111
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Oly Todd
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. The Fuel
  8. Tides
  9. Leaving Goshen
  10. The Spiralist
  11. Yes, Oleaginous
  12. Walking to Camberwell
  13. NX RD
  14. Ether Including Voices
  15. Oaks
  16. Low Tops
  17. Ululation
  18. Features of a Flight Path
  19. Century Boulevard
  20. Marines
  21. Repose on the Flight into Egypt
  22. Is This to Be That
  23. Now
  24. Sparrow
  25. Rocks
  26. The Room of a Mile
  27. The Aircraft in the Space Below the Plane
  28. Two Thoughts on a Hartlepool Sound Mirror
  29. The Replacement
  30. Tilia
  31. Memories of a Sponge
  32. TIXE
  33. Milan
  34. Just Think
  35. O’Meally Frees a Seagull
  36. Arisings
  37. Cool
  38. Us and Them
  39. Entonox