Limits of Control - Softcover

Steve Spence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956546781 ISBN 13: 9780956546784

Publisher: Penned in the Margins, 2011

Synopsis

In this extraordinary sequence of prose poems, coral reefs fall from the sky, volcanoes smoulder and pirates come to power in Britain.

Combining montage techniques with reckless interventions, Steve Spence mashes up the worlds of robotics, banking, fishing, optometry, entomology, climate change, speech synthesis and meteorology to create a dizzyingly contemporary poetics - and a new form of nonsense. As entertaining as it is politically engaged, Limits of Control speaks to the challenging predicament we find ourselves in: 'Things cannot go on as if nothing has happened yet the events which follow are even more strange.'

About this title

About the Author

Steve Spence lives in Plymouth and co-organises live poetry group The Language Club. His reviews and poetry have appeared in Great Works, Shearsman, Stride, Tears in the Fence, Tenth Muse and The Rialto. He was assistant editor of Terrible Work magazine for four issues and in 2007 completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth. His debut book, A Curious Shipwreck (Shearsman, 2010), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956546781
• ISBN 13: 9780956546784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80