
School of Forgery
Jon Stone(Author)
Salt Publishing
Will be published approx. on 15. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-78463-087-4 (ISBN)
Description
PBS Recommendation. The school of forgery is a singular institution, whose principal teachings concern the volatile relationship between fakery and invention. Both you and I are its alumni, and so is the bandit boiled alive in a cauldron of oil. So are the perpetrators of hoaxes, the writers of pornographic dojinshi, counterfeiters in love with their teachers and teens who dress up as birds to fight tyranny. Its professors proliferate. Its graduates excel in every field. Its campus is the world.
This book, part prospectus and part fanzine, is made from stolen or borrowed parts - centos and collages, half-rhymes and homophonics, translations and travesties. Equally inspired by manga luminaries like Naoki Urasawa, animation and adventure stories as it is by earlier poets, the natural world and human history, School of Forgery postulates the poem as knock-off, as reclaimed scrap, and most of all as through-and-through fabrication.
This book, part prospectus and part fanzine, is made from stolen or borrowed parts - centos and collages, half-rhymes and homophonics, translations and travesties. Equally inspired by manga luminaries like Naoki Urasawa, animation and adventure stories as it is by earlier poets, the natural world and human history, School of Forgery postulates the poem as knock-off, as reclaimed scrap, and most of all as through-and-through fabrication.
Reviews / Votes
The structure of School of Forgery is ingenious and impressively intricate. Its slotting architectures are slit, mortised and battened. (...) I stress-tested their timbre by reading poems aloud and yielded a cadence of genuine feeling within the multifaceted, mega-fabricated, louche architecture. -- David Morley * Magma * These are poems with an edge, or rather, multiple sharp edges, poems as elaborate 'fabrications' challenging conventions of form and voice. This is an inspired, integrated debut, endlessly inventive, with a lively intertextuality and a wide frame of reference. The language is both playful and hard-wrought, words at high voltage, words as collector's items. -- PBS Selectors' Comments A poet of fantastic inversions. -- Alison Brackenbury * Poetry London *More details
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: 7 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78463-087-4 (9781784630874)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jon Stone was born in Derby and lives in London. His work has been performed on radio and published in national newspapers, as well as in poetry anthologies themed around imitation, formal innovation, science fiction, mythology and the erotic. He won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and the Poetry London Prize in 2014 and 2016. He edits compendiums of visual, ecological and experimental poetry through Sidekick Books, which he co-runs with Kirsten Irving.
Content
Originals
Near Extremes 1
The Mark
And why do you want to work for the Secret Service?
Tongue
Torn Page from a Chapter on Ray Guns
Dojinshiworld
Cloud Swifts
Near Extremes 2
Goemon at 50 degrees
Mustard
Father Popieluszko
Send in the Mink
Chimney Swifts
Near Extremes 3
The Procedure
Nell Gwynn Poses for Lely
Mimic Octopus
Nosejobs
Jake Root
Beach Swifts
Near Extremes 4
Icicle
A Chest of Letters
The School of Forgery
Boy
They Never See Themselves
Coffee Swifts
The Year Long Dress Rehearsal
Fakes
Tatsunoko
Far Dancing and . . .
What Robots Murmur Through Broken Sleep
Snowbeasts
The Laughing Body
Second-Hand Kite Feathers
The Not-Who-They-Say-They-Are Sonnets
7-Kyoku
Adcock Modulations (Symbolic, Fantastic, Historic, Personal)
Death Daydream Season
All Year Dress Rehearsing
Notes & Admissions
Near Extremes 1
The Mark
And why do you want to work for the Secret Service?
Tongue
Torn Page from a Chapter on Ray Guns
Dojinshiworld
Cloud Swifts
Near Extremes 2
Goemon at 50 degrees
Mustard
Father Popieluszko
Send in the Mink
Chimney Swifts
Near Extremes 3
The Procedure
Nell Gwynn Poses for Lely
Mimic Octopus
Nosejobs
Jake Root
Beach Swifts
Near Extremes 4
Icicle
A Chest of Letters
The School of Forgery
Boy
They Never See Themselves
Coffee Swifts
The Year Long Dress Rehearsal
Fakes
Tatsunoko
Far Dancing and . . .
What Robots Murmur Through Broken Sleep
Snowbeasts
The Laughing Body
Second-Hand Kite Feathers
The Not-Who-They-Say-They-Are Sonnets
7-Kyoku
Adcock Modulations (Symbolic, Fantastic, Historic, Personal)
Death Daydream Season
All Year Dress Rehearsing
Notes & Admissions