
Optician To The Stars
Todd Swift(Author)
Eyewear Publishing
Published on 2. January 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-1-915406-46-0 (ISBN)
Description
In OPTICIAN TO THE STARS, the British-Canadian Todd Swift, one of the leading poet-editors of his generation, takes a look at life with and without rose-tinted specs, considering the sublunar world in all its beauty and horror. The collection favours briefer, more epigrammatic poems, often composed on his iPhone while waiting for blood tests or unable to sleep. For the past two years have seen Swift survive a blood clot on his heart, and a life-changing diagnosis. Not a diary of disease and recovery, and never seeking easy epiphanies, the poems nevertheless unfold a tapestry of humane, witty, and often formally-delightful perceptions. From remembering poets who have died, to celebrating seeing a movie star from Mad Max: Fury Road cycling past, these are poems always seeking to see things, and say things, with craft, skill, elegance, and joy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
122 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915406-46-0 (9781915406460)
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Person
Todd Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec on Good Friday in 1966. He now lives in London, UK. Author of over twenty collections of poetry including Spring In Name Only and Opening Hours and written over 100 hours of television, including for Paramount, the CBC, Fox, CINAR, Disney, and HBO - and was the series editor for anime cult classic Sailor Moon. Professor Mark Ford of UCL has called him 'the Orson Welles of contemporary poetry'.