
Patterflash
Adam Lowe(Author)
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Published on 1. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
75 pages
978-1-84523-559-8 (ISBN)
Description
Within a collection that displays an engaging variety of language registers, both ' high' and ' low' in tone, the masking sometimes makes use of Polari, the gay street language that simultaneously reveals and conceals, excludes and invites, estranges and makes familiar. The collection connects the poet as a wry, humane observer of the scene, particularly as conducted in Manchester, and the persona of " Adam Lowe" as both actor in and narrator of his own dramas, who performs, exults and sometimes suffers in a wide range of guises and disguises. What unites them is the urge to embrace the possibilities of being exactly who you want to be whatever the complications or consequences of your choice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 133 mm
Width: 207 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
98 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84523-559-8 (9781845235598)
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Person
Adam Lowe (he/his, mostly) is a writer, performer and publisher from Leeds, UK, though he currently lives in Manchester. He is the UK's LGBT+ History Month Poet Laureate and was Yorkshire's Poet for 2012 . He writes poetry, plays and fiction, and he occasionally performs in drag as Beyonce Holes. He is of Kittitian, British and Irish descent. He graduated with both a BA and MA from the University of Leeds, and is currently researching for a PhD in creative writing at the University of Manchester.