Description
Iain Morrison's debut collection I'm a Pretty Circler is experimental without being intimidating; conversational without being casual; and outrageous without shedding tenderness. Within its pages, Emily Dickinson rubs shoulders with drag queens, while nineteenth-century German composers are as likely to be referenced as dating apps. Morrison balances punchy, patterned short poems with longer more conversational or collaged works that explore ways in which sex, class, technology and religion intertwine in contemporary Britain.
About the Author
Born in 1979 in Edinburgh, Iain Morrison is a poet, musician and performance artist. Currently based in the Scottish capital, he has also lived and worked in Cambridge (where he studied music at the University), Bristol and Berlin. He works in Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery where he is responsible for cross-artform events and has commissioned poets, including Forward Prize-winner Vahni Capildeo, to write responses to exhibitions. He performs regularly around the UK, from Orkney to Manchester. Performance work includes "a durational installation" in Berlin where he read aloud every Emily Dickinson poem. He tries to keep track of his activities and thinking at permanentpositions.wordpress.com
Reviews
"A vast and vigorous vivisected joie de vivre. Although the poetry always flows forth according to its own autonomous and inimitable sprung algorithms, it is also incisively open to the world's detritus, including voices that are carefully unassimilated into the poet's voice. But no matter who or what it makes present, it is all made out of music: mostly, it erects a lattice of stents within the pre-existing musicality of speech. This is life, writing (noun, verb), ever infectiously brave in its self-probing and self-enabling: shucking off your hackles as it sucks off its shackles. Mobile, shrewd, obstinate, grand, and sexy, singing not only with its mouths but with its wounds." - Jow Walton
Book Information
ISBN 9781908251886
Author Iain Morrison
Format Paperback
Page Count 70
Imprint Vagabond Voices
Publisher Vagabond Voices
About the Author
Born in 1979 in Edinburgh, Iain Morrison is a poet, musician and performance artist. Currently based in the Scottish capital, he has also lived and worked in Cambridge (where he studied music at the University), Bristol and Berlin. He works in Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery where he is responsible for cross-artform events and has commissioned poets, including Forward Prize-winner Vahni Capildeo, to write responses to exhibitions. He performs regularly around the UK, from Orkney to Manchester. Performance work includes "a durational installation" in Berlin where he read aloud every Emily Dickinson poem. He tries to keep track of his activities and thinking at permanentpositions.wordpress.com
Reviews
"A vast and vigorous vivisected joie de vivre. Although the poetry always flows forth according to its own autonomous and inimitable sprung algorithms, it is also incisively open to the world's detritus, including voices that are carefully unassimilated into the poet's voice. But no matter who or what it makes present, it is all made out of music: mostly, it erects a lattice of stents within the pre-existing musicality of speech. This is life, writing (noun, verb), ever infectiously brave in its self-probing and self-enabling: shucking off your hackles as it sucks off its shackles. Mobile, shrewd, obstinate, grand, and sexy, singing not only with its mouths but with its wounds." - Jow Walton
Book Information
ISBN 9781908251886
Author Iain Morrison
Format Paperback
Page Count 70
Imprint Vagabond Voices
Publisher Vagabond Voices
