School of Forgery by Jon Stone
What is the school of forgery? It's what teaches us fakery and invention in equal measure, the means by which we transform ourselves and our world. With its knock-offs, travesties, alt-pop golems, stolen text and tall stories, this book celebrates the singularly human compulsion to 'make things up'.The structure of School of Forgery is ingenious and impressively intricateIts slotting architectures are slit, mortised and battened. (...) I stress-tested their timbre by reading poems aloud and yielded a cadence of genuine feeling within the multifaceted, mega-fabricated, louche architecture.
-- David Morley * Magma *These are poems with an edge, or rather, multiple sharp edges, poems as elaborate 'fabrications' challenging conventions of form and voice. This is an inspired, integrated debut, endlessly inventive, with a lively intertextuality and a wide frame of reference. The language is both playful and hard-wrought, words at high voltage, words as collector's items.
-- PBS Selectors' CommentsA poet of fantastic inversions.
-- Alison Brackenbury * Poetry London *
Jon Stone was born in Derby and lives in London. His work has been performed on radio and published in national newspapers, as well as in poetry anthologies themed around imitation, formal innovation, science fiction, mythology and the erotic. He won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and the Poetry London Prize in 2014 and 2016. He edits compendiums of visual, ecological and experimental poetry through Sidekick Books, which he co-runs with Kirsten Irving.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784630874 |
| ISBN 10 | 178463087X |
| Title | School of Forgery |
| Author | Jon Stone |
| Series | Salt Modern Poets |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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