Rain Rider is a book of echoes and allusions, mirrors and reflections: words are signs that keep changing their position, taking new forms, suggesting new ideas, as they recur, recto/verso. Briggs's vision is essentially ludic and irreverent, whether he's evoking the plangent nostalgia of the Test Card, conjuring the Devil, or riffing on an artisan perfume. Rain Rider is a book of forms, of thought poured into vessels: it begins with a rain-filled chalice and closes with an upended urn of ashes. Through it all, in a returning sequence, we find archetypal figures - the Fool, the Hermit, the Mariner and Thief - as though running amok in the serifed leading of the typeface.
| ISBN: | 9781907773624 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2013 |
| Author: | David Briggs |
| Publisher: | Salt an imprint of Salt Publishing Limited |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 54 pages |
| Series: | Salt Modern Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Rain Rider is a book of echoes and allusions, mirrors and reflections: words are signs that keep changing their position, taking new forms, suggesting new ideas, as they recur, recto/verso. Briggs's vision is essentially ludic and irreverent, whether he's evoking the plangent nostalgia of the Test Card, conjuring the Devil, or riffing on an artisan perfume. Rain Rider is a book of forms, of thought poured into vessels: it begins with a rain-filled chalice and closes with an upended urn of ashes. Through it all, in a returning sequence, we find archetypal figures - the Fool, the Hermit, the Mariner and Thief - as though running amok in the serifed leading of the typeface.
Rain Rider features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Rain Rider is available in Hardback
Rain Rider was written by David Briggs and published by Salt an imprint of Salt Publishing Limited
Rain Rider has 54 pages
Yes it is part of Salt Modern Poets series