Don Paterson's latest collection of poetry 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.
| ISBN: | 9780571338252 |
| Publication date: | 17th March 2022 |
| Author: | Don Paterson |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 80 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Poetry by individual poets |
Don Paterson's latest collection of poetry 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.
Zonal features in the following genres: Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets
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Zonal was written by Don Paterson and published by Faber & Faber
Zonal has 80 pages
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