Indoor Skydiving - Softcover

River Wolton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906613885 ISBN 13: 9781906613884

Publisher: Smith/Doorstop, 2013

Synopsis

This book harnesses the momentum and paradox of indoor skydiving to ask searching questions about identity, mortality and exile. Challenging, contemporary and playful, it explores subjects as diverse as human trafficking and celebrity in the digital age with humour, vitality and practical compassion. A love of language and an incisive craft unify the personal and political, with nothing taken for granted.

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Review:

'River Wolton is a poet to watch. Moniza Alvi

Poems full of life and promise. Alison Brackenbury

Her gift is to allow us to understand the personal challenges of sadness, conflict and even fear, by considering the global urgencies of war, poverty and violence. Magma

She re-defines the role and purpose of the poet in the UK. The Cadaverine

She knows that heavy subjects are best delivered in the lightest language. Her first collection is a single bullet, and its poems are shrapnel. Stride

She writes about the big subjects life, love and death in a gloriously easy and accessible style. --Tribune

About the Author:

River Wolton grew up in London and lived in Sheffield for 20 years before moving to Derbyshire. Her previous Smith Doorstop publications are the pamphlet The Purpose of Your Visit (2008), followed by the full collection Leap. She is a recent Derbyshire Poet Laureate and works as a writing facilitator. A recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship, she is currently a Writer-in-Residence with Writing East Midlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith/Doorstop
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1906613885
• ISBN 13: 9781906613884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84