SKY WRI TEI NGS
Every major airport has a three-letter code from the International Air Transport Association. In perhaps history's greatest-ever feat of armchair travel, Nasser Hussain has written a collection of poetry entirely from those codes. In a dazzling aeronautic feat of constraint-based writing, SKY...
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Every major airport has a three-letter code from the International Air Transport Association. In perhaps history's greatest-ever feat of armchair travel, Nasser Hussain has written a collection of poetry entirely from those codes.
In a dazzling aeronautic feat of constraint-based writing, SKY WRI TEI NGS explores the relationship between language and place in a global context. Watch as words jet-set across the map, leaving a poetic flight path. See letters take flight (and leave their baggage behind).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781552453711
Publish date: 2018-10-16
Publisher: Coach House Books
Pages no: 88
Edition language: English
Written entirely in three letter airport codes this collection is an interesting linguistic challenge. However, the cleverness of the exercise waned quickly for me. I felt it would have been better suited to a small handful of poems as part of a greater whole rather than an entire collection - it qu...
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