False Memory - Softcover

Lopez, Professor Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848611943 ISBN 13: 9781848611948

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2012

Synopsis

"[...] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year [was] Tony Lopez's False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge." -Robert Potts, The Guardian, 6 December 2003."

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About the Author

Tony Lopez is an English poet of international repute. He was born in Stockwell in 1950 and grew up in Brixton, South London. He began work by writing fiction for newspapers and magazines, and had five crime and science fiction novels published before going to university at Essex and then Cambridge. He has received awards from the Wingate Foundation, the Society of Authors, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Arts Council England. His poetry is featured in The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard), Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford), Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (Salt), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (RSE), Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (Wesleyan) and Conductors of Chaos (Picador). His critical writings are collected in Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry (Salt) and The Poetry of W.S. Graham (Edinburgh University Press). He taught for many years at the University of Plymouth, where he was appointed the first Professor of Poetry. He is married with two grown up children and lives in Exmouth in Devon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848611943
• ISBN 13: 9781848611948
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 136