The word 'touchscreen' entered the English language in the early 1970s to describe a computer display screen that also functions as an input device operated by touching its surface. In this absorbing collection, Touch Screen, poet Philip Armstrong dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us see its component parts afresh - 'touch' and 'screen' strangely reconfigured in today's complex technological world. In poems that range from the personal lyric to retellings of myths and stories long held in the human imagination, Armstrong explores the rapidly evolving interface between human and non-human worlds. Touch Screen brings us face to face with being alive here and now, and asks the urgent question: Can you feel it?
| ISBN: | 9781991348074 |
| Publication date: | 13th October 2025 |
| Author: | Philip Armstrong |
| Publisher: | Otago University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 88 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry Technology: general issues |
The word 'touchscreen' entered the English language in the early 1970s to describe a computer display screen that also functions as an input device operated by touching its surface. In this absorbing collection, Touch Screen, poet Philip Armstrong dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us see its component parts afresh - 'touch' and 'screen' strangely reconfigured in today's complex technological world. In poems that range from the personal lyric to retellings of myths and stories long held in the human imagination, Armstrong explores the rapidly evolving interface between human and non-human worlds. Touch Screen brings us face to face with being alive here and now, and asks the urgent question: Can you feel it?
Touch Screen features in the following genres: Poetry, Technology: general issues
Touch Screen is available in Paperback
Touch Screen was written by Philip Armstrong and published by Otago University Press
Touch Screen has 88 pages
£12.60