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Zonal
- Author
- Don Paterson
- Narrator
- Don Paterson
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 26 March 2020
- Run Time
- 1 hour 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
A classic television series,
The Twilight Zone, sets off a genre-bending experiment in science-fiction, autobiography and all the spaces in-between.
Don Paterson's new collection starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind.
Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of
The Twilight Zone (1959-1960), playing fast and loose with both their source material and their author's own life. Narrative and dramatic in approach, genre-hopping from horror to
Black Mirror-style sci-fi, 'weird tale' to metaphysical fantasy, these poems change voices constantly in an attempt to get at the truth by alternate means. Occupying the shadowlands between confession and invention,
Zonal takes us to places and spaces that feel endlessly surprising, uncanny and limitless.
'Dynamic, interrogative and unsettling; crafted yet open-ended; fiercely smart, savage and stirring - from the get-go, Paterson's poetry has been essential reading.'
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Don Paterson
- Narrator
- Don Paterson
- Duration
- 1 hour 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 March 2020
- ISBN
- 9780571364718
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets
Synopsis
A classic television series, The Twilight Zone, sets off a genre-bending experiment in science-fiction, autobiography and all the spaces in-between. Don Paterson's new collection starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of The Twilight Zone (1959-1960), playing fast and loose with both their source material and their author's own life. Narrative and dramatic in approach, genre-hopping from horror to Black Mirror-style sci-fi, 'weird tale' to metaphysical fantasy, these poems change voices constantly in an attempt to get at the truth by alternate means. Occupying the shadowlands between confession and invention, Zonal takes us to places and spaces that feel endlessly surprising, uncanny and limitless. 'Dynamic, interrogative and unsettling; crafted yet open-ended; fiercely smart, savage and stirring - from the get-go, Paterson's poetry has been essential reading.' Guardian
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