Death Magazine: Longlisted for The Polari First Book Prize 2020 (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

Matthew Haigh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784632066 ISBN 13: 9781784632069

Publisher: Salt, 2019

Synopsis

Death Magazine is a neutropian vision of our soundbite, snippet-obsessed, digital and print magazine culture. It employs the Dadaist technique of cut-up to produce poems that range from the blackly comic to the surreal, from the nonsensical to the prescient.

Many of the poems confine themselves to the precise aesthetics of magazine columns, doing away with line breaks entirely to find new meaning in their Modernist forms. Added to the mix are a range of free verse poems more traditional in form. This monster hybrid of styles, of fact and fiction, aims to replicate the untrustworthy, hyperbolic stream of media that absorbs our lives every day.

This radical work creates a futuristic landscape of human emotion as product a pink, shattered diamond refracting our chaotic times.

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Haigh is a poet, artist and designer from Cardiff. He is a regular contributor to anthologies by Sidekick Books most recently collaborating with friend and artist Alex Stevens on Battalion and No, Robot, No! They also collaborated on the Tumblr series This Was No Suicide a reimagining of Murder, She Wrote episodes produced using cut-up poetry and collage. He published a pamphlet, Black Jam, with Broken Sleep Books in 2019.

Edition details

• Publisher: Salt
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784632066
• ISBN 13: 9781784632069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64