Interference Pattern

J O Morgan

ISBN 10: 1910702021 / ISBN 13: 9781910702024

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2016

About this Item

A fine unread 1st impression of a paperback original with french flaps. Signed and dated [15/1/17] by the Author on the title page. Signed at the T S Eliot shortlist event at The Festival Hall, London. P&P will be reduced to cost.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interference Pattern
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910702021
• ISBN 13: 9781910702024
• Binding: Paperback Original
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Weight: 88 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

At first, these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb, but the next reading could be one of rapture and astonishment; it all hinges on your point of view. Like the optical illusion of the maiden and the crone, you can only see one image at a time; the brain deciding which is the figure and which the background. It is a book that acts out its own subjects—dualities, ambiguities, boundaries—through physical dislocation, through patterns of interference. This is a collage of many voices: eager or dispassionate, unreliable or matter-of-fact—depending, as with everything else, on your angle of entry. Some of the voices fear involvement; some are afraid of doing nothing; some, perhaps, have already gone too far. Like the image on the cover, these pieces shimmer and buzz in their own instability. Is this punishment or reward? What is the yellow smoke? Will there be bodies floating under the plastic pool-cover? Are we, like the hotel manager, seeing visions? Volatile, troubling, but endlessly interesting, these poems show J.O. Morgan working and compressing language into a precarious, frictional state. As a result, Interference Pattern is a unique reading experience: vivid, challenging, and completely original.

About the Author

J. O. Morgan is the author of four collections of poetry, each a single book-length poem: Natural Mechanical, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; its sequel, Long Cuts, shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Award; At Maldon, shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award; and In Casting Off.