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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In Dirty Looks, Cheryl Follon serves up a fiery gumbo of playful poems drawing on the shadowy side of love. The book presents a wild Rabelaisian carnival of poetry, stories, and boisterous monologues flavored by Deep South folk and foibles, by Scottish ballads and bawdy tales, and by the jaded love chroniclers of ancient Greece and Rome. While some poems touch on more tender times, their main concern is with the thoughtlessness, jealousy, spite, deception, and self-delusion that can go hand in glove with love. But for all their darkness, the poems are spiced with saucy humor and a lively, often wicked wit, and set against a sultry backdrop of Louisiana in summertime. Zusammenfassung In "Dirty Looks"! Cheryl Follon serves up a fiery gumbo of playful poems drawing on the shadowy side of love.
