{"product_id":"school-of-forgery-9781784630874","title":"School of Forgery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePBS Recommendation\u003c\/strong\u003e. The school of forgery is a singular institution, whose principal teachings concern the volatile relationship between fakery and invention. Both you and I are its alumni, and so is the bandit boiled alive in a cauldron of oil. So are the perpetrators of hoaxes, the writers of pornographic dōjinshi, counterfeiters in love with their teachers and teens who dress up as birds to fight tyranny. Its professors proliferate. Its graduates excel in every field. Its campus is the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, part prospectus and part fanzine, is made from stolen or borrowed parts – centos and collages, half-rhymes and homophonics, translations and travesties. Equally inspired by manga luminaries like Naoki Urasawa, animation and adventure stories as it is by earlier poets, the natural world and human history, \u003cem\u003eSchool of Forgery\u003c\/em\u003e postulates the poem as knock-off, as reclaimed scrap, and most of all as through-and-through fabrication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe structure of \u003cem\u003eSchool of Forgery\u003c\/em\u003e is ingenious and impressively intricate. Its 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.\u003c\/p\u003e -- David Morley * Magma *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e -- PBS Selectors' Comments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poet of fantastic inversions.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alison Brackenbury * Poetry London *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNear Extremes 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd why do you want to work for the Secret Service?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTongue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTorn Page from a Chapter on Ray Guns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDojinshiworld\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCloud Swifts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNear Extremes 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoemon at 50 degrees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMustard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFather Popieluszko\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSend in the Mink\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChimney Swifts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNear Extremes 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Procedure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNell Gwynn Poses for Lely\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMimic Octopus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNosejobs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJake Root\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeach Swifts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNear Extremes 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIcicle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Chest of Letters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe School of Forgery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey Never See Themselves \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoffee Swifts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Year Long Dress Rehearsal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTatsunoko\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFar Dancing and . . .\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Robots Murmur Through Broken Sleep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnowbeasts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Laughing Body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecond-Hand Kite Feathers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Not-Who-They-Say-They-Are Sonnets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7-Kyoku\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdcock Modulations (Symbolic, Fantastic, Historic, Personal)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeath Daydream Season\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Year Dress Rehearsing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes \u0026amp; Admissions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190534267223,"sku":"9781784630874","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/school-of-forgery-9781784630874","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}