The Night Jar

Peterkin explores the expectations and limits of being human with lashings of wit and sometimes a disquieting note of threat. Mad cap, extravagant, urban and questioning, this is a collection no one will forget.

About the author

Louise Peterkin is a poet from Edinburgh. Her poetry has been widely published in many journals and anthologies. In 2016 she was a recipient of a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in the poetry category. She is the co-editor along with Rob A. Mackenzie of Spark: Poetry and Art Inspired by the Novels of Muriel Spark (Blue Diode Press, 2018). She is an assistant editor for the long running independent poetry magazine The Interpreter's House. She is a huge fan of cinema, particular horror and old Hollywood films and she works full time as a Library Assistant for the University of Edinburgh.

Summary

Peterkin explores the expectations and limits of being human with lashings of wit and sometimes a disquieting note of threat. Mad cap, extravagant, urban and questioning, this is a collection no one will forget.

Product details

• Authors: LOUISE PETERKIN
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781784632168
• ISBN: 978-1-78463-216-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 196 mm x 130 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 94 g
• Illustrations: Not illustrated
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies