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Out for Air

English

By (author): Olly Todd

Out for Air is the exhilarating first collection by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd. Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are endless / beyond the cantilever / of reality'. Each poem is its own event: expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in precision engineering. Todd rewires T. S. Eliot's Waste Land in his strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is genius loci, the spirit of the place. From Manhattan's 'silky streets' and the Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things. 'I'm dazzled by this wonderful debut. Todd writes with a tangible physicality, solid as a curb, so that the language itself crunches, glides, grinds. A radically different way of experiencing the built and natural environment and an endlessly engaging, witty, serious and astute new voice.' LUKE KENNARD See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 16 May 2022
  • Publisher: Penned in the Margins
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913850074

About Olly Todd

Olly Todd is a retired pro-skater living in London with his girlfriend and their daughter. His poems have appeared in Ambit The Rialto Vice Test Centre Five Dials and the Clinic anthologies. His pamphlet Odeum Spotlights (Rough Trade Books 2018) was long-listed for the Michael Marks Awards.

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