Dogtooth - Softcover

Fran Lock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993103847 ISBN 13: 9780993103841

Publisher: Out Spoken Press, 2017

Synopsis

Dogtooth is a book about ghosts: ghosts as in the spectres and echoes of absent friends, but also as in the discomforts, paranoias and phobias that haunt a very particular cultural moment. It s a book about fear, about a background static of suspicion.

It s about the twin anxieties of identity and assimilation. There s folklore in it, the current that we carry and that which carries us; the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and the damage those stories can do. It s also about memory, the strategies that poetry has for keeping those we ve lost alive.

About this title

Review:

"It goes swaggering through town like a vivid old-time circus, commandeering all fve senses till they start to fuse with each other. "
--Glyn Maxwell

About the Author:

Fran Lock is a sometime itinerant dog whisperer and author of two poetry collections, Flatrock (Little Episodes, 2011) and The Mystic and the Pig Thief (Salt, 2014). Her work as appeared in various places, most recently POETRY, and The Poetry Review. Her poem Last Exit to Luton came third in the 2014 National Poetry Competition

About this edition

• Publisher: Out Spoken Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0993103847
• ISBN 13: 9780993103841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120