A01=Martin De Mello
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- ISBN 9781905233366
- Dimensions: 140 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2011
- Publisher: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Language: English
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Martin De Mello is a poet capable of dazzling with the familiar. Under his gaze, images, well-known from urban landscapes, become cultural exhibits that demand full attention. The modes of language that we scan through every day - from agendas and instruction sheets to texted missives and slang - become poems in their own right, leading us to question the boundaries we place between the inspired and the mundane. All the while, if our love stays above the waist is shot through with wry humour and moments of serenity without diluting an ounce of its realism and intensity.
Martin De Mello arrived in Manchester via Singapore, Watford and Leeds. He studied English Literature at The University of Leeds and then worked in a succession of jobs from education to IT to mental health. He now works for the writing development agency Commonword, and has managed to stay there beyond his usual two years. His poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Peepal Tree's Red, Contemporary Black British Poetry. if our love stays above the waist is his first pamphlet.
