Dust Sheet
Published on 22. November 2012
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-1-84471-905-1 (ISBN)
Description
Whisked away like an illusionist's cape or shaken out in the street, Dust Sheet throws off a cloud in which the world is made strange.
Here, the everyday is perpetually on the point of tipping over into mystery: a disused phone box becomes a portal, a cup of coffee swims with visions, a discarded surgical glove points towards a parallel reality.
Here, people are driven by their obsessions: drinking rainwater with a fork or trying to formulate a new theory of everything.
In this universe, imaginary figures - the contrarian, the imperfectionist - exist alongside the marginal of history - the Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo and the Dutch biologist Jan Swammerdam.
Informed by philosophy, with a lyric sensibility and an appetite for formal variety, the poems in Dust Sheet seek to restore and re-enchant the overlooked.
Here, the everyday is perpetually on the point of tipping over into mystery: a disused phone box becomes a portal, a cup of coffee swims with visions, a discarded surgical glove points towards a parallel reality.
Here, people are driven by their obsessions: drinking rainwater with a fork or trying to formulate a new theory of everything.
In this universe, imaginary figures - the contrarian, the imperfectionist - exist alongside the marginal of history - the Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo and the Dutch biologist Jan Swammerdam.
Informed by philosophy, with a lyric sensibility and an appetite for formal variety, the poems in Dust Sheet seek to restore and re-enchant the overlooked.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-905-1 (9781844719051)
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Person
Luke Heeley was born in 1977 and grew up in Lincolnshire. He now lives in south London. Selections of his poems have previously appeared in the anthologies The Art of Wiring (Ondt & Gracehoper) and Ask for It by Name (Unfold Press). He is also the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. This is his first full collection.
Content
The Decorator
Piero di Cosimo
You're All Door and I'm All Mirror
To a London Plane Tree
Sketch of a Concrete Slab on the Forecourt of King's Cross Station
Blackbird
Last Page of the Journal
Travelling to Delphi
The Age of Hats
Heatwave Notes
Dragon
Second Delivery
Operation
Feeding the Flamingos
Doughnuts
The Cup of Coffee
Chicory in Paris, 1808
The Interloper's
Leaving the Cinema in Daylight
The Details
Remote
A Line from Pascal
The Contrarian
Episodes from a History of Bees
Woman of Bicorp
Bugonia
Swammerdam's Prayer
The Hive
Where the Bee Sucks
To a Disused Phone Box
The Imperfectionist
To a Naugahyde Booth
Basilisk
Cold Call
Correspondence Course
The Trick
The Mudlark
The Hobbies of Cowboys
Return to Plum Lake
The Magician on the Bridge
December Mystics
Snail Shell
Cabin Number One
Pittenweem Polaroid
Carte Postale
Snow
To a Circle Line Train
Feathers
Time for an Imaginary Smoke
Piero di Cosimo
You're All Door and I'm All Mirror
To a London Plane Tree
Sketch of a Concrete Slab on the Forecourt of King's Cross Station
Blackbird
Last Page of the Journal
Travelling to Delphi
The Age of Hats
Heatwave Notes
Dragon
Second Delivery
Operation
Feeding the Flamingos
Doughnuts
The Cup of Coffee
Chicory in Paris, 1808
The Interloper's
Leaving the Cinema in Daylight
The Details
Remote
A Line from Pascal
The Contrarian
Episodes from a History of Bees
Woman of Bicorp
Bugonia
Swammerdam's Prayer
The Hive
Where the Bee Sucks
To a Disused Phone Box
The Imperfectionist
To a Naugahyde Booth
Basilisk
Cold Call
Correspondence Course
The Trick
The Mudlark
The Hobbies of Cowboys
Return to Plum Lake
The Magician on the Bridge
December Mystics
Snail Shell
Cabin Number One
Pittenweem Polaroid
Carte Postale
Snow
To a Circle Line Train
Feathers
Time for an Imaginary Smoke