My Speaking Tongue by Johnson, Will

My Speaking Tongue (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781912477371)

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My Speaking Tongue by Johnson, Will

My Speaking Tongue

$7.99
My Speaking Tongue by Johnson, Will

My Speaking Tongue

$7.99
Format: Paperback
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Sharpened, but not defined, by the author's evolving experience of motor neurone disease, these poems are meditations on - and sometimes collisions with - the limits of body, language and voice. Veering from sardonic resignation to defiance, they use a variety of forms to entangle the living in the speech of the dead (poets and others), the quotidian in the odd, the local in something altogether elsewhere. And occasionally, the poet's past, as an Indologist and translator from the Sanskrit, can be heard humming a catch to his altered self.

Author: Will Johnson
ISBN-10: 1912477378
ISBN-13: 9781912477371
Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2018
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
By Will Johnson
By Will Johnson
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Will Johnson lives with his family in Cardiff. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, and The SHOp. He has been placed in competitions organised by Agenda, Magma, and Lightship, and shortlisted for others, most recently the Live Canon International Poetry Competition. He has also published six India-related books (as W. J. Johnson), including verse translations from the Sanskrit in the Oxford World's Classics series. He was founder-editor of the Cardiff University electronic journal, Asian Literature and Translation. Since leaving academia, he has spent more time writing poetry.

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