All Your Talk

In her first collection CHERYL FOLLON presents a wild carnival of bawdy tale-telling, songs, and boisterous monologues, all in a rowdy spirit of earthy celebration. Her poems are lucid and lusty, direct and daring, spiced with down-to-earth humor and a lively, often wicked wit.

About the author

Cheryl Follon was born in Ayrshire, where she grew up. She studied Law and then English and Scottish Literature at Glasgow University before taking an MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin, and now teaches at a college of further education in Glasgow. She has received two writer's bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, and has published three collections with Bloodaxe, All Your Talk (2004), Dirty Looks (2010) and Santiago (2017). Her essay on the Mojave Desert was shortlisted for the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for travel writing in 2012.

Summary

Cheryl Follon is a feisty Scottish writer. The poems of "All Your Talk" are spiced with down-to-earth humour and a lively, often wicked wit.

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl Follon, Follon Cheryl
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2004
• EAN: 9781852246587
• ISBN: 978-1-85224-658-7
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets